EAC maintains the National Mail Voter Registration Form, which voters can use to register to vote and update their registration information. The form is available in seven languages.
EAC also provides voter guides in 11 languages and a variety of links to helpful resources for voters relating to registration, military and overseas voting, accessibility, and volunteering as a poll worker.
HAVA mandates that EAC accredit voting system test laboratories and certify voting equipment, marking the first time the federal government has offered these services to the states.
EAC is committed to running the program in a transparent manner, releasing voting system test plans and reports for the public to review and posting detailed information about the voluntary voting system guidelines, program policies, and related correspondence.
One of EAC's top priorities is providing assistance to election officials. We do this by issuing guidance, advisories and best practices to help officials comply with the Help America Vote Act and make other election administration improvements and enhancements.
EAC administers federal funding to improve the administration of U.S. elections as authorized by the Help America Vote Act. The commission also manages discretionary, competitive grant programs authorized by HAVA, including the HAVA College Program to recruit college students to serve as poll workers and the HAVA Mock Election Program, which supports activities to educate secondary students in the electoral process.
EAC is responsible under the Help America Vote Act for collecting information about election administration issues and sharing that information with Congress, election officials and the public.
This section contains completed research and reports commissioned by EAC, information about EAC research in progress, and additional elections research issued by other organizations. Datasets are also available to download.
Voters can use the National Mail Voter Registration Form to register to vote, update registration information due to a change of name, make a change of address, or register with a political party.
The National Form also contains voter registration rules and regulations for each state and territory. For more information about registering to vote, contact your state election office. Read our Frequently Asked Questions for more information about the national form.
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Note: If you wish to vote absentee and are a uniformed service member or family member or a citizen living outside the U.S., contact the Federal Voting Assistance Program to register to vote.
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EAC has several projects under way to assist states in serving military and overseas citizens who register and vote absentee under the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act. Learn more
02/12/13 -- Approval Letter - Test Plan Rev. A
02/06/13 -- Approved Test Plan - Rev. A (Wyle)
01/10/13 -- Draft Test Plan (Wyle)
12/13/12 -- Approval Letter of Modified Voting System Testing Application Package
12/12/12 -- Dominion Request for Application Certification Modification - Scope Revision
05/18/12 -- Approval Letter of Voting System Testing Application Package
08/30/12 -- EAC Letter to Dominion on Sequoia Test Report and Document Review
06/08/12 -- Partial Draft Test Report - Ver. 1.0 (SLI)
12/21/11 -- Draft Test Report - Ver. 3.0 (SLI)
11/18/11 -- Draft Test Report - Ver. 2.0 (SLI)
08/30/11 -- Approval Letter - Test Plan Rev. 1.3
08/23/11 -- Approved Test Plan - Rev. 1.3 (SLI)
08/12/11 -- Draft Test Plan - Rev. 1.2 (SLI)
07/18/11 -- Draft Test Plan - Rev. 1.1 (SLI)
06/24/11 -- Partial Draft Test Plan - Rev. 1.0 (SLI)
03/03/11 -- EAC Response to Dominion VSTL Change Request
03/02/11 -- Dominion VSTL Change Request
01/20/11 -- Test Report Response Letter - Ver. 2.0
11/30/10 -- Draft Test Report - Ver. 2.0 (iBeta)
09/08/10 -- Draft Test Report - Ver. 1.0 (iBeta)
07/24/09 -- EAC Letter to Sequoia on Reuse of Hardware Testing
04/23/09 -- Approval Letter - Test Plan Ver. 3.0
04/17/09 -- Approved Test Plan - Ver. 3.0 (iBeta)
09/22/08 -- Draft Test Plan - Ver. 2.0 (iBeta)
11/20/07 -- Correspondence between EAC, Sequoia, SysTest and iBeta (Notice of Non-compliance update):File 1, File 2, File 3
09/11/07 -- EAC Notice of Non-compliance to Sequoia Voting Systems
09/11/07 -- EAC letter to iBeta Quality Assurance
11/02/12 -- Approval Letter - Test Plan Rev. D
10/17/12 -- Approved Test Plan - Rev. D (Wyle)
10/01/12 -- Draft Test Plan - Rev. C (Wyle)
08/13/12 -- ES&S Letter on Revision of Scope
07/20/12 -- Approval Letter - Test Plan Rev. B
07/06/12 -- Approved Test Plan - Rev. B (Wyle)
05/09/12 -- Draft Test Plan - Rev. A (Wyle)
03/22/12 -- Draft Test Plan (Wyle)
12/02/11 -- Approval Letter of Voting System Testing Application Package
12/17/12 -- Approval Letter of Voting System Testing Application Package
Terminated
11/28/07 -- EAC letter to AVS (Termination notice of WINWare 2.0.4)
11/19/07 -- EAC letter to AVS (file also includes AVS correspondence to EAC)
09/19/07 -- AVS response to EAC
08/21/07 -- EAC response to Advanced Voting Solutions
08/19/07 -- Advanced Voting Solutions reply to EAC's clarification request
08/14/07 -- EAC letter to Advanced Voting Systems
08/14/07 -- EAC letter to iBeta Quality Assurance (AVS)
07/26/07 -- iBeta Quality Assurance letter to EAC (AVS)
04/27/07 -- Draft Test Plan - Rev. 2.0 (iBeta)
12/16/08 -- Approval Letter of Voting System Testing Application Package
02/02/12 -- Dominion request EAC to Terminate Application
02/08/08 -- Draft Test Plan - Rev. 02 (SysTest)
09/28/07 -- Draft Test Plan - Rev. 01 (SysTest)
12/21/11 -- ES&S Addendum Letter
12/19/11 -- ES&S requests EAC to Terminate Application
07/28/11 -- Approval Letter of Modified Voting System Testing Application Package
05/31/11 -- Draft Test Report - Rev. A (Wyle)
05/18/11 -- Draft Test Report (Wyle)
05/12/11 -- Approval Letter - Test Plan Rev. A
05/10/11 -- Approved Test Plan - Rev. A (Wyle)
04/22/11 -- Draft Test Plan (Wyle)
04/15/11 -- Approval Letter of Voting System Testing Application Package
10/04/11 -- Draft Test Plan (Wyle)
07/29/11 -- Approval Letter of Voting System Testing Application Package
10/24/11 -- Draft Test Plan - Rev. C (Wyle)
10/03/11 -- Draft Test Plan - Rev. B (Wyle)
09/12/11 -- Draft Test Plan - Rev. A (Wyle)
08/12/11 -- Draft Test Plan (Wyle)
05/20/11 -- Approval Letter of Voting System Testing Application Package
11/15/10 -- EAC letter to ES&S (Termination notice of Unity 4.0)
03/09/09 -- EAC Response to ES&S VSTL Change Request
12/09/08 -- Approved Test Plan - Rev. 10.0 (SysTest)
11/17/08 -- Approved Test Plan - Rev. 9.1 (SysTest) (Approved Pending Conditions)
11/10/08 -- Approval Letter - Test Plan Rev. 9.0
03/18/08 -- Draft Test Plan - Rev. 07 (SysTest)
You may view the System Timeline for this project here.
11/29/11 -- ES&S requests EAC to Terminate Application
06/09/11 -- Approval Letter - Test Plan Rev. D
06/06/11 -- Approved Test Plan - Rev. D (Wyle)
05/12/11 -- Draft Test Plan - Rev. C (Wyle)
04/14/11 -- Draft Test Plan - Rev. B (Wyle)
12/21/10 -- Draft Test Plan (Wyle)
07/30/10 -- EAC Response to ES&S VSTL Change Request
04/14/10 -- Source Code Decision
02/18/10 -- Approval Letter of Voting System Testing Application Package
03/28/08 -- Draft Test Plan - Rev. 1.0 (SysTest)
06/23/08 -- Hart requests EAC to Terminate Application
05/24/07 -- Draft Test Plan - Rev. 03 (SysTest)
01/25/12 -- EAC letter to Precise (Termination notice of AEVS Ver. 1.0)
08/02/11 -- EAC Response to Precise VSTL Change Request
07/28/11 -- Precise VSTL Change Request
05/23/11 -- Approval Letter of Voting System Testing Application Package
01/07/09 -- EAC approves Unisyn's request to Terminate Application
01/05/09 -- Unisyn requests EAC to Terminate Application