Resolving Voter Registration Problems: Making Registration Easier, Less Costly and More Accurate
Author(s) •
Alvarez, R. Michael
Hall, Thad E.
Date Issued
August 2009
Publisher
Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project
Series/Report no.
VTP Working Paper Series;87
Abstract
The practice of voter registration has a long history in the United States. In 1800, Massachusetts was the first state to impose a voter registration requirement. By Reconstruction, voter registration was used in a handful of states, typically in urban areas, as a tool to prevent multiple voting. By early in the twentieth century, most states required voter registration.
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