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Comparative Voter Registration: Lessons from Abroad for Improving Access and Accuracy in the United States

This report looks at what best practices from a sample of peer nations that states (or the federal government) should consider adopting, including greater centralization, improved data sharing operations, regularized and timely voter contact, and the selective targeting of unregistered populations.

Modernizing Voter Registration

Assessing Potential Automatic Voter Registration Partner Agencies and Programs

Automatic Voter Registration (AVR) programs are most often associated with motor-voter programs at state DMVs across the nation. But is that the only government agency where AVR could work? This paper explores alternative government agencies where current infrastructures would support forms of AVR.

Cost of Elections

State and Local Spending on the Administration of Elections: Insights From a Review of 12 States and 93 Localities

For decades, there have been resounding issues with funding elections across the country. Outside of lack of federal funding for elections, one of the main reasons for this is that the systems for financing the administration of elections are as decentralized and varied as the systems for conducting elections. This paper reviews experiences and elections budgets from 12 states to better educate those in the electoral space about the dire need for more funding.

Cost of Elections

Understanding Elections from an Administrative Burden Perspective: Making Participation Easy by Minimizing Unnecessary Barriers

Much of the discussion of elections and election laws centers on access to voting and election security, and the ostensible tradeoff between the two. This paper presents an alternative perspective for evaluating election administration policies, drawing from the administrative burdens framework.

Pro-Democracy Practices

Bringing Guardrails and Structure to Election Fraud Investigations

Medicaid AVRModernizing Voter Registration

Using Medicaid Automatic Voter Registration to Address Persistent Voter Registration Problems: Helping the National Voter Registration Act Achieve its Potential

Modernizing Voter RegistrationPro-Democracy Practices

A History of Third-Party Voter Registration Drives

Modernizing Voter Registration

Using Individual Income Tax Data In Automatic Voter Registration Systems

Responsive Gov provides an analysis of a white paper written by Vanessa Williamson, Senior Fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution. The paper assesses options for using state income tax data for voter registration or updating existing voter registration records. Click here to see Responsive Gov's analysis and the full paper by Williamson.