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The authors provide an overview of two growing and important issues in election administration: terminology and data format. The chapter first describes the impetus for the Common Data Format, the current agreement on it, and its anticipated implications for election administration. It then describes the importance of and challenges to finding common languages across and within states for the administration of elections.
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For those states which are covered under the NVRA. The Presidential Commission on Election Administration (PCEA) along with the Council of State Governments (CSG) Overseas Voter Initiative (OVI) have called for the abolition of this practice.
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The NIST repository for the VRI can be found here. https://github.com/usnistgov/VoterRecordsInterchange.
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Paul Stenbjorn is a former election official and election technology expert; cases can be found at https://github.com/pstenbjorn/VRIUsecases.
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“Democracy Fund VRI Use Cases and Reference Code Samples.” Accessed January 13, 2019. https://github.com/pstenbjorn/VRIUsecases.
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Stenbjorn, Paul. “Executive Summary for Use Cases of the Voter Records Interchange (VRI).” The Democracy Fund, November 2018. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PNgzhddQpsRgWFy03Kp80-qUHyApJB4dL6zjqUZAgzc/edit#heading=h.njslixvbokif.
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Hubler, K.O., Patrick, T. (2020). Building Terminology in the Field. In: Brown, M., Hale, K., King, B. (eds) The Future of Election Administration. Elections, Voting, Technology. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-14947-5_9
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