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Project Title:
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State Voter Registration Databases
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PIN:
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CSTB-L-05-07-A
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Major Unit:
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Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences
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Sub Unit:
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Computer Science & Telecommuncations Board
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RSO:
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Lin, Herb
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Project Scope
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An ad hoc committee will organize a series of workshops and prepare an interim report addressing challenges in implementing and maintaining state voter registration databases and providing advice to the states on how to evolve and maintain these databases in order to share information with other states securely and accurately in fulfillment of the Help America Vote Act of 2002.
A series of workshops will explore issues including the following:
-- Lessons learned from intrastate voter registration database interoperability efforts
-- Technical approaches, processes and safeguards associated with identifying and removing duplicate registrations
-- Technical approaches and procedures for sharing voter registration data across state systems
-- Security issues that arise when sharing data among states, and technical and procedural approaches for addressing them.
Discussions at the workshops, expert testimony, and committee deliberations will be used to prepare an interim report outlining challenges to achieving interoperability of state voter registration databases and related challenges facing states as they develop, maintain, and evolve their voter registration databases.
Additional workshops and committee deliberations will culminate in a final report that builds on the interim report by describing techical, procedural, and organizational impediments to full voter registration database interoperability and outlining a plan for achieving interstate interoperability of state voter registration databases. The final report will address such issues as:
- - What is the current state of voter registration databases across the states?
- - What functionality is useful for a state in checking its voter registration database against that of another state?
- - What are the main technical, procedural, and organizational impediments standing in the way of full interoperability?
- - What paths to interstate interoperability minimize technical risk and expense?
The project is sponsored by the U.S. Election Assistance Commission. The start approximate date for the project is December 15, 2006. Two reports are planned to be issued, as follows: 1) Interim Report, expected 16 months after project start, and 2) Final Report at the end of the project in approximately 36 months.
Update 10-21-09: A pre-publication version of the report entitled Improving State Voter Registration Databases: Final Report was released on October 21, 2009.
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Project Duration:
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36 months
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