Voter Registration and Voter Roll Maintenance | Public Affairs

Introduction:

In the U.S., voter registration is handled at the state and local levels. The federal government became involved in further regulating the states’ management of elections with the passage of the 1993 National Voter Registration Act (NVRA, known as the “Motor Voter” law), which applied to all U.S. states plus Washington, D.C., with the exception of North Dakota (which discarded voter registration requirements in 1951), as well as Idaho, Minnesota, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Wisconsin, and Wyoming, which allowed Election Day registration as of the time the bill was passed.

Essential Reading

Revisiting Public Opinion on Voter Identification and Voter Fraud in an Era of Increasing Partisan Polarization

Stanford Law Review

Improving America’s Elections by Modernizing States’ Voter Registration Systems

Pew

Securing Voter Registration Systems

National Conference of State Legislatures

Voter List Maintenance Errors and Their Racial Burden: Evidence from Wisconsin’s Supplemental Movers Poll Books

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In the News

One Person, One Vote: Estimating the Prevalence of Double Voting in U.S. Presidential Elections

Sharad Goel et al., American Political Science Review

States’ Actions to Block Voters Appear Illegal

Ian Urbina, New York Times

Purges: A Growing Threat to the Right to Vote

Kevin Morris, Myrna Perez, Jonathan Brater, Christopher Deluzio, Brennan Center

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