Welcome to Elections 101 from Cause of America! This educational series covers a variety of election related topics, presented as short video explanations.
This page is set up like an FAQ, so you can click on any of the links below to be taken to a brief video explanation of that topic.
VOTER ROLLS
- What Is a Voter Roll?
- Our Current Voter Rolls
- Why Our Voter Rolls Are Centralized
- Why Did We Agree to Centralize Voter Rolls?
- Claims About Voter Rolls
- What is HAVA?
- Who Enforces Voter Roll Accuracy?
- Proof That Voter Rolls Are Neither Accurate Nor Secure
- The Problem With Centralized Voter Rolls
- Authentication: 2-step vs. 2-factor
- The Problem with ERIC
- Does Your State Use ERIC?
- What LOCAL Means
- Why Local?
- What About Efficiency?
- Clean Slate vs. Cleaning Up Voter Rolls
- How to Fix Our Voter Rolls
- Maintaining Clean Voter Rolls
Voting
MAIL-IN BALLOTS
Ballot Dropboxes
Voting Safeguards
- Pollwatcher Training by Sharon Spigel
- Bipartisan Teams
- What Is Signature Verification?
- Signature Verification: Theory vs. Reality
- Signature Verification: Failed Safeguard
- Failed Safeguard: IV-MTR
- Modeled Turnout
- UOCAVA Transmittal
- “Secure” Ballot Paper
- Security Risks and Costs
- False Sense of Security
- What Should We Do for Voter Verification?
- Defining Identification
- Accepted yet Unacceptable Forms of ID
- Photo ID Examples
- Exceptions to In-Person Voting
- Who Determines Voter Disability?
- ADA & UOCAVA Voter Secrecy
- A Final Thought about ADA Voters
- One-Day Voting
BALLOT ADJUDICATION
- What is Ballot Adjudication?
- Why We Have Ballot Adjudication
- Problems with Ballot Adjudication
- Ballot Adjudication Solutions
VOTING MACHINES AND TECHNOLOGY
- What is a Voting Machine?
- Voting Equipment Terms
- History of Voting Machines
- Voting Machine Corporate Track Record
- Who Americans Can Trust with Our Elections
- Types of Voting Machines
- Voting Tech: General Problems
- “But we use computers for everything else”
- Voting Tech: Specific Problems
- Voting Systems: What We Don’t Know
- Voting Systems: What We Should Do
- New Voting Technologies
- Ranked Choice Voting (RCV)
NATIONAL CHANGE OF ADDRESS (NCOA) DATABASE
- What is NCOA?
- NCOA Provider Tiers
- NCOA Cost and Access
- What NCOA Offers
- NCOA Types of Moves
- NCOA and Voter Rolls
- NCOA Data & Accuracy
- The Importance of NCOA Certification Documents
- NCOA Action Items
DATA ANALYSIS AND INTEGRITY
- What Is Data Integrity?
- Why Is Data Integrity Important?
- Signs of Good Data vs. Bad Data
- Data Integrity in Your State
CAST VOTE RECORDS (CVRs)
- What Is a Cast Vote Record (CVR)?
- Where do Cast Vote Records Come From?
- How to Get Your State’s Cast Vote Record (CVR)
- What Can We Learn from a CVR?
- Why CVRs Matter
- CVRs Are Protected Election Documentation
- What to Do When CVR Requests are Refused
- CVRs Already Exist
- What to Do with Your CVRs
harnessing your state statutes
- What are State Statutes?
- State Statutes vs. State Constitution: What’s the Difference?
- Why State Statutes Matter
- Where to Find Your State Statutes
- Hierarchy of State Laws and Statutes
- Case Law and Why it Matters
- State Statutes: What to Look For
- State Statutes: The Implications of HAVA and NVRA
- An Overview of Helpful Resources for Understanding Your State Statutes
- Who Prosecutes Election Law Violations?
- A Word about Legal Representation and Election Integrity
- Potential Legal Remedies
- Finding Local Cases: Has Anyone in Your Area Already Taken Legal Action?
- State Law: What to Look For