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Denver questions culled voter list: State law strips 100,000 from active list for not voting in November, January – The Denver Post

Denver's delegation to the state legislature met with the city's Election Commission on Tuesday out of concern that a troubled election last November could lead to disenfranchised voters May 1.

Learn more about list maintenance from this Project Vote report.


Culver signs same-day voter registration – Des Moines Register

Iowans will be able to register to vote moments before casting their ballots.

Visit www.Demos.org for more information on Election Day Registration.
Despite High Literacy, Md. Lacks Voter Turnout – Associated Press

(AP) Maryland, one of the best educated and most affluent states in the country, has for years ranked near the bottom in political participation.

"The root of the problem in Maryland is voter registration, because you don't do too bad when you look at turnout among registered voters," said Kimball Brace, president of Election Data Services Inc., a Washington company that monitors voting trends.” A similar trend may be seen in minority voter participation, as was reported in a recent Project Vote blog entry.


Erin Ferns is a Research and Policy Analyst with Project Vote’s Strategic Writing and Research Department (SWORD).



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