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Pew Study Calculates the Real Cost of Voter Registration

By The Pew Center on the States

Oregon spent more than $9.7 million–or $4.51 per active registered voter–on its voter registration system during the 2008 election according to a new report released today by The Pew Center on the States.  Conducted with the assistance of Oregon state and local election officials, “The Real Cost of Voter Registration” is the first comprehensive... »

Voter Registration Modernization

By Wendy R. Weiser, Michael Waldman and Renée Paradis, Brennan Center

Click here to download a PDF. Since the Florida election debacle in 2000 laid bare the way Americans cast and count votes, lawmakers and officials at federal, state, and local levels have made fitful progress toward building a modern and democratically inclusive election system. But the promise of a renewed democratic system has not... »