National Academy of Sciences Releases EAC-funded Report on Statewide Voter Registration Databases « Docuticker

National Academy of Sciences Releases EAC-funded Report on Statewide Voter Registration Databases « Docuticker:

The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) today released its Improving State Voter Registration Databases report, funded by the U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC). The report, available on the EAC Web site, includes data gathered from the states about their databases and short-term and long-term recommendations for improving and implementing them.

EAC will use the NAS report as a basis to update its 2005 voluntary guidance for statewide voter registration databases, in accordance with EAC’s Fiscal Years 2009-2014 Strategic Plan.

Recommendations cover the following subject areas:

• Public education and dissemination of registration information
• Administrative processes and procedures
• Funding registration databases
• Data collection and entry
• Matching procedures
• Privacy, security, and backup
• Database interoperability

The report presents information gathered during three years of study conducted by the Committee on State Voter Registration Databases, a group of 14 experts in the fields of election administration; political science; computer and network security; and databases, who were organized by NAS to consider this issue.

Full Report (PDF; 1.4 MB)