Research/Publications

2010 Issues in Election Administration

RESTRICTING VOTER REGISTRATION DRIVES

Policy Paper: Restricting Voter Registration Drives. July 2010.

PUBLIC AGENCY VOTER REGISTRATION

Policy Paper: Voter Registration Services at Public Assistance Agencies. April 2010.

Legislative Brief: Voter Registration Services at Public Assistance Agencies. April 2010.

Case Study: Registering Low-Income Voters at Public Agencies in Missouri. Updated April 2010.

FELON VOTING RIGHTS

Policy Paper: Restoring Voting Rights to Former Felons. April 2010.

VOTER LIST MAINTENANCE

Policy Paper: Maintaining Current and Accurate Voter Lists. March 2010.

Legislative Brief: Maintaining Current and Accurate Voter Lists. March 2010.

Model Bill: Voter List Maintenance

PREREGISTRATION FOR 16- AND 17-YEAR OLDS

Legislative Brief: Expanding the Youth Electorate through Preregistration. March 2010.

PROVISIONAL VOTING

Legislative Brief: Ensuring that Provisional Ballots are Counted. January 2010.

Model Bill: Provisional Voting Model Bill. January 2010.

NO MATCH, NO VOTE

Policy Paper: No Match, No Vote. February 2010

INTERSTATE DATABASE MATCHING

Legislative Brief: Interstate Compacts . February 2010.

VOTER INTIMIDATION AND SUPPRESSION

Legislative Brief: Voter Intimidation and Caging. February 2010.

Model Bill: Voter Caging. February 2010.

Report: Caging Democracy: A 50-Year History of Partisan Challenges to Minority Voters. September 2007

PERMANENT, PORTABLE REGISTRATION

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IMPROVING VOTER REGISTRATION PROCEDURES

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YOUTH VOTING

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EARLY VOTING
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No Match, No Vote Policy Paper

Congress passed the Help America Vote Act (HAVA) in 2002 to impose fair and more uniform standards for state election administration, including provisions to streamline and modernize voter registration databases and establish identification requirements. However, some states have misinterpreted the law and passed onerous “No Match, No Vote” laws. Under such statutes, if a state is unable to match the information on a voter’s registration application with information in an existing government database, the application is denied outright. As the new paper explains, however, research shows that matching voter data with other government databases is an unreliable, error-laden process, and that conditioning the right to vote on such a flawed system will inevitably disenfranchise eligible citizens.

No Match, No Vote summarizes the history, research, and key court cases related to the issue, and provides recommended best practices for states to adopt to help ensure that no eligible citizen is disenfranchised.