Publications
Voter Registration Modernization
Executive Orders
Today in Albany, the group Reinvent Albany, New York Public Interest Research Group, Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law School, and Center for Research, Regional Education and Outreach (CRREO) at SUNY New Paltz released their report Executive Orders: Actions the Governor can take to make New York government more open, accountable and democratic.
The report includes eleven model executive orders that Governor-elect Andrew Cuomo can use to open up New York State government, increase the accountability of state agencies and reduce barriers to voting. An executive order is a governor’s declaration which has the force of law, and does not require legislation to take effect. The orders are centered on the basic goal of empowering the citizenry with more and better information about what its government is doing, and how it is spending tax payer dollars.
Authored by: Gerald Benjamin, Blair Horner, John Kaehny, and Lawrence Norden
– 11/23/10
Online Voter Guides
The Brennan center released two updated voter guides for students and citizens who have moved. The guides are available online along with general information for voters.
Authored by: Brennan Center Voting Rights and Elections Team
– 09/21/10
Voter Registration in a Digital Age
This report is the first in-depth survey of state-based paperless registration innovations—“automated” voter registration, in which government offices like DMVs collect and transfer voter registrations electronically, and online voter registration, in which citizens submit voter registration applications over the Internet. Based on documentary research and interviews with election officials in fifteen states, this report explains how paperless voter registration works, reviews its development, and assesses its impact.
Authored by: Christopher Ponoroff, Edited by Wendy Weiser
– 07/13/10
Voter Registration Modernization: Collected Reports and Papers
An overview of the work done over the past few years by the Brennan Center exposing problems of Voter Registration and offering solutions—solutions that could bring the United States in line with other democracies around the world, and which would increase the number of voters registered and make the registration process simpler and easier.
Authored by: Wendy Weiser, ed.
– 10/05/09
Voter Registration Modernization
This document is a summary of the policy proposal for universal voter registration.
Authored by: Wendy R. Weiser, Michael Waldman and Renée Paradis
– 06/23/09