Voter Registration And List Maintenance

Voter registration and list maintenance (continued): hearing before the Subcommittee on Elections, Committee on House Administration, House of Representatives, One Hundred Tenth Congress, first session, held in Washington, DC, November 16, 2007.

Voter registration and list maintenance: hearing before the Subcommittee on Elections, Committee on House Administration, House of Representatives, One Hundred Tenth Congress, first session, held in Washington, DC, October 23, 2007.

Voter registration and list maintenance (continued) : hearing before the Subcommittee on Elections, Committee on House Administration, House of Representatives, One Hundred Tenth Congress, first session, held in Washington, DC, November 16, 2007.

Voter registration and list maintenance : hearing before the Subcommittee on Elections, Committee on House Administration, House of Representatives, One Hundred Tenth Congress, first session, held in Washington, DC, October 23, 2007.

Reports of ineligible persons registering to vote raised concerns about state processes for verifying voter reg. lists. Although states run elections, Congress has authority to affect the admin. of elections. The Help Amer. Vote Act of 2002 (HAVA) sets a deadline for states to have a statewide voter reg. list & list verification procedures. This report selected 7 states (AZ, CA, MI, NY, TX, VA, & WI) to represent a range of characteristics relevant to voter reg., such as whether a statewide voter list existed prior to HAVA. Discusses how these states verify voter reg. eligibility; the challenges they face in maintaining accurate voter lists; & progress toward implementing HAVA reg. require. Identifies fed. data sources to help verify voter reg. eligibility. Ill.