election administration
Managing voting processes
Election administration is the work of organizing and conducting elections—managing voter registration, designing ballots, staffing polling places, counting votes, and certifying results.
The term encompasses both the bureaucratic machinery and the officials who run it: Election administration varies widely from state to state.
Controversies over election administration often center on access, security, and partisan influence over the process.
- voting rightsEntitlement to elect officials
- redistrictingRedrawing electoral boundaries
- swing statesElectorally unpredictable regions
- voter registrationSigning up for elections
- voter rollsLists of eligible electors
absentee voting · mail-in ballots · suffrage · audit trails · certified results · poll watchers · vote tabulation · provisional ballots · poll workers · early voting · biometric verification · judicial oversight · constitutional amendments · public forums · performance metrics · media relations · advocacy groups · community partnerships
election administrationcampaigning
Actively pursuing political support
electioneering · voter outreach · political advertising · campaign trail · campaign strategy
election administrationauthoritarian rule
Centralized, unaccountable power
dictatorship · autocracy · military junta · one-party rule · hereditary succession
election administrationelection fraud
Illegal manipulation of voting
voter suppression · ballot tampering · election interference · disenfranchisement · voting irregularities
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