Provisional Voting and Voter Identification

Provisional Voting and Voter Identification

The Eagleton Institute of Politics, in partnership with the Moritz College of Law at Ohio State University, was awarded a contract by the U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC) to provide information on provisional voting and voter identification practices in the 2004 election. The contract called upon Eagleton and Moritz to collect and examine data from around the country on both issues and to make recommendations that states could consider implementing in future elections.

Provisional Voting
A report, Best Practices To Improve Provisional Voting, was submitted to the EAC on June 28th, 2006.

	Report available here
	Appendix A: National Survey of Local Election Officials’ Experiences with Provisional Voting
	Appendix B: Relationship Between Time Allotted to Verify Provisional Ballots and the Level of Ballots That Are Verified
	Appendix C: Provisional Ballot Litigation by Issue
	Appendix D: Provisional Ballot Litigation by State
	Appendix E: State Summaries
	Appendix F: Provisional Voting Statutes by State

The EAC released a paper in October 2006 that incorporates the research done by the Eagleton/Moritz team.
EAC Provisional Voting report available here

Voter Identification
A separate report, Best Practices To Improve Voter Identification Requirements, prepared by Eagleton and Moritz under the same contract, was also submitted to the EAC on June 28th, 2006.
Voter Identification report available here

Timothy Vercellotti and David Andersen of Rutgers University's Eagleton Institute of Politics and Political Science Department respectively presented a paper, "Protecting The Franchise, or Restricting It? The Effects of Voter Identification Requirements on Turnout", based on the data compiled for this report at the 2006 meeting of the American Political Science Association.
Paper available here

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