Easy Voting Project

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Project Overview

This project is to fight against election scams bent on voter suppression. A number of the popular suppression schemes range from laws that suppress voters to schemes that rely on misinformation or actions by groups bent on purging voters. 1. Difficult voter registration. 2. Deadline for registration weeks before the election. 3. Purging voter registration lists based on the notion that voters are registered in multiple jurisdictions ("crosscheck") 4. Onerous ID requirements at the polls. 5. Intense provisional ballot screening. 6. Voters must vote at their home precinct. 7. Reduced or no early voting. 8. Long lines at precincts 9. Confusing ballot selection options, such as partisan vs. nonpartisan ballots. 1. Purging voter registration if voters do not vote often enough. 2. Confusing information about location of precincts. 3. Threats by groups at polling places 4. Early notification that the key races are already decided.

Key Approaches for Easy Voting

Same-Day Registration ("Election Day Registration" -- EDR)

Many of these schemes can be thwarted by a very simple change -- allowing same-day registration at polling places. Many states already support EDR, including California, which will be implementing the law passed years ago in upcoming elections, starting in 2017 and later.

• Map showing same-day registration states:
  

Registration Survey

Citizens Oversight conducted a "Registration Survey" of all 50 states, completed September, 2017.

• VoterRegistrationFactsByState -- table of all states and their registration facts.

Automatic Registration Years ago, we investigated automatic registration. Here are the references ported to this topic.

• https://www.theroot.com/articles/politics/2014/11/improve_voter_turnout_by_abolishing_voter_registration.html
• https://www.fairvote.org/reforms/universal-voter-registration/universal-voter-registration-the-canadian-model/
• https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2011/dec/13/in-praise-of-abolishing-edited-electoral-register
• https://www.governing.com/blogs/view/gov-oregon-considers-automatic-voter-registration.html
• https://www.democracyjournal.org/28/make-it-easy-the-case-for-automatic-registration.php
• https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2013/04/08/voter-registration-could-be-automatic/
• https://www.demos.org/blog/9/23/14/national-voter-registration-day-its-time-universal-voter-registration
• https://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/news/state-regional-govt-politics/automatic-voter-registration-a-top-priority-for-so/nTFb7/

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Summary of articles submitted ([[Common.NewsMedia][All]]):

• M1946 2020-06-22 Citizens' Oversight's Comments on VVSG 2.0 Draft -- RayLutz CitizensOversight
• CitizensOversightStatusUpdate2019 2020-04-13 Citizens Oversight Status Update 2019 -- RayLutz CitizensOversight
• CitizensOversightStatusUpdate2018 2019-02-09 Citizens Oversight Status Update 2018 -- RayLutz CitizensOversight
• CitizensOversightStatusUpdate2017 2017-12-20 Citizens Oversight Status Update 2017 -- RayLutz CitizensOversight
• VoterRegistrationFactsByState 2017-10-06 Voter Registration Facts by State -- Susan Schneider CitizensOversight
• M1782 2017-07-30 Man sues county so he can personally recount last year's election votes -- JoshuaStewart UnionTribune
• M1781 2017-07-28 Press Conf: Lawsuit Filed to Allow Ballot Review -- RayLutz CitizensOversight
• SanDiegoPrimaryContest2016 2017-02-02 San Diego Primary Contest 2016 -- RayLutz CitizensOversight
• M1666 2016-06-28 Citizens' Oversight vs. Padilla -- BillSimpich CitizensOversight
• M1537 2015-01-28 2-Vote Margin, 15 Rejected Legit Ballots, 1 Notorious Election Official: KPFK 'BradCast' -- BradFriedman BradBlog

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