NOTE: The functions and responsibilities of the former FEC Office of Election Administration were transferred to the U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC) upon the establishment of EAC according to the provisions of the Help America Vote Act of 2002.

The EMG Program is pleased to make available the following publications from the former FEC Office of Election Administration.  While most of the information contained in these publications precedes the passage of the Help America Vote Act of 2002, readers can still find information that is relevant to the effective administration of elections today.  They also help provide a historical framework to current practices and understanding of how the electoral system has evolved from 1979 to today.

EAC posted these reports and studies as part of its clearinghouse function. EAC did not review the information for quality and does not endorse the reports and studies. 

Innovations in Election Administration
The purpose of this series was to acquaint State and local election officials with innovative election procedures and technologies that had been successfully implemented by their colleagues around the country at that time.

Innovations 1 - The Voting Authority Card (May 1992)
Innovations 2 - Optical Scanning Technology for Purposes Other than Ballot Counting (August 1992)
Innovations 3 - Election Signature Retrieval Systems (August 1992)
Innovations 4 - Using NCOA Files for Verifying Voter Registration Lists (September 1992)
Innovations 5 - Agency Voter Registration Programs (September 1992)
Innovations 6 - Motor Voter Registration Programs (September 1992)
Innovations 7 - Mail Voter Registration Programs (April 1994)
Innovations 8 - Election Document Retention in an Age of High Technology (April 1994)
Innovations 9 - Early Voting (April 1994)
Innovations 10 - Ballot Security and Accountability (September 1995)
Innovations 11 - All-Mail-Ballot Elections (September 1995)
Innovations 12 - The Electronic Transmission of Election Materials (September 1995)
Innovations 13 - Simplifying Election Forms and Materials (May 1996)
Innovations 14 - Recruiting Poll Workers (July 1996)
Innovations 15 - Ensuring the Accessibility of the Election Process (August 1996)
Innovations 16 - Using the Internet in Election Offices (April 1998)
Innovations 17 - Acquiring Election Systems and Equipment (September 1998)
Innovations 18 - Using Biometric Identification Technologies in the Election Process (September 2001)
Innovations 19 - Provisional Balloting (August 2003)

Election Administration
This four-volume series on election administration was designed as a set of engineering manuals for election officials. They describe the basic elements of the election machinery and offer standard and fairly uniform techniques for planning, managing, and costing out election functions.

Election Administration Volume 1 -  Managing Elections (June 1979)
Election Administration Volume 2 - Planning Elections (June 1979)
Election Administration Volume 3 - Costing Elections (June 1979)
Election Administration Volume 4 - State Legal Memoranda (June 1979)