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- Provides a detailed overview of adopting and administering voter registration reforms at the state and local level, starting with the National Voter Registration Act of 1993
- Offers an examination of the administrative procedures that state and local officials utilize in response to federal and state laws
- Informs students, educators, and practitioners on the complexity of administering elections, specifically in regard to processing and verifying voter registration applications and interacting with various non-governmental agencies that offer voter registration
Part of the book series: Elections, Voting, Technology (EVT)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Keywords
- Voter Registration
- National Voter Registration Act
- NVRA
- Election Administration
- Election Reform
- Local Elections Officials
- HAVA
- Collaborative Governance
- Voter Registration Gap
- Federal Election Commission
- Motor Voter
- Election Day Registration
- Voter Registration Method
- Voter Registration Deadlines
- Online Voter Registration
- OVR
- Help America Vote Act
- Voter Registration Modernization
- Voter Registration Validity
- State-level Reforms
Reviews
—Mitchell Brown, Professor, Auburn University, USA
“Registering to vote is, as Merivaki points out, a ‘highly complex and error-prone’ process. Merivaki skillfully navigates multiple layers and levels of government—and data—to provide a clearer portrait of the strengths and weaknesses of the system. Policymakers should take her research seriously when generating ideas to improve elections all over the United States. She demonstrates a vast knowledge of the voter registration system in the United States and chooses examples to analyze carefully. Scholars, policymakers, and election officials alike can learn important details about the registration process from her careful analysis. Merivaki is a rising star in the study of Election Science and in the study of voter registration more generally. She has made an important contribution to maintaining and increasing Americans' right to cast a ballot. She clearly shows that not just the rules about voter registration matter, but also how election officials administer those rules.”
—Martha Kropf, Professor, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA
“With original data and fresh insights, Merivaki offers academics—and more importantly, practitioners and election administrators—a framework of collaborative governance to help us better understand the uneven dynamics and lack of uniformity in voter registration efforts across the American states. Due to institutional barriers and a lack of federal oversight the past two decades, many eligible citizens are not registered to vote, raising serious questions about the access and equity of the franchise in the United States. Merivaki makes a convincing case that though states have adopted multiple reforms to register voters—including online voter registration, automatic voter registration, and even Election Day registration—without partnerships with non-governmental actors, many states (and local jurisdictions) are unable to keep pace with the demands of registering eligible voters. Scholars, policy advocates, and election administrations all will benefit from Merivaki’s timely research.”
—Daniel A. Smith, Professor & Chair, University of Florida, USA
Authors and Affiliations
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Department of Political Science & Public Administration, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, USA
Thessalia Merivaki
About the author
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Administration of Voter Registration
Book Subtitle: Expanding the Electorate Across and Within the States
Authors: Thessalia Merivaki
Series Title: Elections, Voting, Technology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-48059-2
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-48058-5Published: 18 September 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-48059-2Published: 17 September 2020
Series ISSN: 2945-7610
Series E-ISSN: 2945-7629
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 170
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 16 illustrations in colour
Topics: Governance and Government, US Politics, Electoral Politics