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Virginia Web Tools Let Users Access Interactive Election Data

May 20, 2016
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Pew Charitable Trust and the Virginia Department of Elections teamed up to help make “decisions related to election administration more transparent and evidence-based.”

Their early results are in, and they are encouraging..

James Alcorn, chairman of the State Board of Elections, thinks this project will be an important resource for election officials and the public. “All too often, discussions about election administration turn on anecdotes because objective evidence wasn’t easily available. This tool turns the hard data that the Department of Elections collects into accessible, objective information that can be used to improve elections across the commonwealth,” he says.

We at VPC are particularly impressed with Virginia’s interactive tool for examining voter registration trends. Check it out for yourself, or read the full story at Pew.