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Article: Report: Election Day Voter Registration Would Boost Voter Participation in Iowa; 'EDR Could Help Increase Voter Turnout Over 10 Percentage Points'.
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- AScribe Law News Service
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- March 22, 2007
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Byline: Demos
DES MOINES, Iowa, March 22 (AScribe Newswire) -- Voter participation in Iowa will significantly increase if the state passes Election Day Registration (EDR) into law, according to a new report published today by national election reform research and policy group Demos and released in collaboration with the Iowa Citizen Action Network (ICAN). The Iowa House this week passed an EDR bill (HF653) and the state Senate is expected to take up the bill on Monday, March 26.
Election Day Voter Registration in Iowa, authored for Demos by election policy experts R. Michael Alvarez from the California Institute of Technology and Jonathon Nagler of New ...