Commission on Federal Election Reform

Voter Registration: Past, Present, and Future

Working Paper No.: 
30
Date Published: 
01/01/2009
Author(s): 
R. Michael Alvarez

The Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project identified problems with voter registration as a pressing problem in the 2000 presidential election; between 1.5 and 3 million votes were lost due to voter registration problems in that election. Voter registration is a central component of the election management process in the United States, and is an important foundation for how elections are administered.

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