Implementing HAVA's Voter Education Requirement: A Crisis and a Federal Mandate Improve State-Local Cooperation in Florida

The political fallout from the presidential election of 2000 that landed on both state and local officials, HAVA's broadly written voter education requirement giving the state great latitude in defining education, and the act's block-grant funding allowing more programmatic decisions to be...

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Published in:Publius 2005-09, Vol.35 (4), p.537-558
Main Author: MacManus, Susan A.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Absentee voting
Analysis
Cooperation
Coordination
Education
Election law
Elections
Electoral reform
Federalism
Florida
Intergovernmental relations
Interpretation and construction
Law
Legislative Bodies
Local elections
Local government
Organizations
Policy making
Political aspects
Political reform
Polls
Presidential elections
State elections
Subnational government
U.S.A
United States of America
Voter fraud
Voter registration
Voters
Voting
Voting precincts
Voting rights
Voting turnout
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Summary:The political fallout from the presidential election of 2000 that landed on both state and local officials, HAVA's broadly written voter education requirement giving the state great latitude in defining education, and the act's block-grant funding allowing more programmatic decisions to be made by county supervisors of elections each played a role in improving voter education in Florida. Relationships between state and local election officials also improved, even though the state legislature expanded the rule-making and coordination roles of the state Division of Elections. Voter education efforts in the 2002 and 2004 election cycles, much more extensive than in 2000, were judged to be quite effective by both the voters and the county election supervisors. Improvements in voter confidence and participation paralleled the expanded voter education efforts in this highly competitive battleground state.
ISSN:0048-5950
1747-7107
DOI:10.1093/publius/pji044