2024 Election Administration
and Voting Survey

Videos (8)

2024 EAVS Webinar: Preparing for EAVS

2024 EAVS Webinar: Changes to Section A (Voter Registration)

A Closer Look: 2024 EAVS Section A (Voter Registration)

A Closer Look: 2024 EAVS Section B (UOCAVA Voting)

A Closer Look: 2024 EAVS Section C (Mail Voting)

A Closer Look: 2024 EAVS Section D (In-Person Polling Operations)

A Closer Look: 2024 EAVS Section E (Provisional Voting)

A Closer Look: 2024 EAVS Section F (Voter Participation and Election Technologies)

2024 EAVS Webinar: Preparing for EAVS

Members of the EAVS project team from the U.S. Election Assistance Commission provide an overview of the 2024 Election Administration and Voting Survey (EAVS), including new changes for the 2024 EAVS, a discussion of the EAVS process and timeline, resources available to assist election officials, and helpful advice.

2024 EAVS Webinar: Changes to Section A (Voter Registration)

Members of the EAVS project team from the U.S. Election Assistance Commission provide an overview of the changes to Section A (voter registration) for the 2024 Election Administration and Voting Survey (EAVS), including why these changes were made, how input was gathered from election officials, discussion of all the items that changed, and answers to common questions related to this section of the EAVS.

A Closer Look: 2024 EAVS Section A (Voter Registration)

A closer look at Section A of the 2024 Election Administration and Voting Survey (EAVS). This section collects data on voter registration and registration list maintenance, including registered voters, same-day voter registration, voter registration transactions processed, confirmation notices sent and reasons for sending them, voters removed from the registration rolls, and voter registration records merged or linked.

A Closer Look: 2024 EAVS Section B (UOCAVA Voting)

A closer look at Section B of the 2024 Election Administration and Voting Survey (EAVS). This section collects data on voters covered under the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act (UOCAVA), including number of registered UOCAVA voters; Federal Post Card Applications (FPCA); UOCAVA ballots transmitted, returned, counted, and rejected; and Federal Write-in Absentee Ballots (FWAB).

A Closer Look: 2024 EAVS Section C (Mail Voting)

A closer look at Section C of the 2024 Election Administration and Voting Survey (EAVS). This section collects data on mail voting, including mail ballots transmitted, permanent absentee voters, drop boxes, ballot curing, mail ballots counted, and mail ballots rejected.

A Closer Look: 2024 EAVS Section D (In-Person Polling Operations)

A closer look at Section D of the 2024 Election Administration and Voting Survey (EAVS). This section collects data on in-person polling operations, including the number of precincts, polling places, poll workers, and poll worker characteristics.

A Closer Look: 2024 EAVS Section E (Provisional Voting)

A closer look at Section E of the 2024 Election Administration and Voting Survey (EAVS). This section collects data on provisional voting, including provisional ballots cast and counted, reasons for casting provisional ballots, and provisional ballots rejected.

A Closer Look: 2024 EAVS Section F (Voter Participation and Election Technologies)

A closer look at Section F of the 2024 Election Administration and Voting Survey (EAVS). This section collects data on voter participation and election technologies used to support voting, including total participation in the 2024 general election, source of data on voter participation, use of voting machines, use of electronic and paper poll books, use of voting registration systems, and location for where votes are tallied.

EAVS At-A-Glance

• 2024 EAVS At-A-Glance

  This one-page quick fact sheet covers the EAVS project timeline and the main deadlines to keep in mind and provides links to helpful resources and assistance. It is an ideal quick reference guide for the EAVS project.

EAVS Template User Guide

• EAVS Data Collection Template User Guide

  This document provides step-by-step instructions on how to use the data collection templates that have been created to support the 2024 EAVS. For both the Excel template and online template, this user guide outlines how to access each template, how to navigate within the template, how to enter and error check data, and how to submit data. For state officials, this user guide also demonstrates how data ports from the online template to the Excel template and how to customize the online template for jurisdictions to use.

EAVS Crosswalk

• EAVS 2022-24 Crosswalk

  This crosswalk documents the changes that have been made to the EAVS questions between 2022 and 2024. For each section of the survey, this crosswalk details the EAVS question, question description, the column of the Excel template the question appeared in for 2022, the column of the Excel template the question appeared in for 2024, and any changes to the question numbering, Excel template column, and question wording. States and jurisdictions that use database queries to compile their EAVS data may use this file to help prepare their 2024 data submissions.

Newsletters (8)

• Vol. 1: What’s New for the 2024 EAVS

  This newsletter provides details on how the EAVS questions and survey procedures have changed since 2022, including changes to the 2024 EAVS questions, changes to the 2024 Policy Survey questions, crosswalks available for the 2024 EAVS and Policy Survey, and an updated Guide to the Election Administration and Voting Survey.

• Vol. 2: Using the Policy Survey to Validate 2024 EAVS Data

  Your state's Policy Survey submission provides important context to your EAVS data, and your 2024 EAVS data collection templates will feature custom validations to ensure your EAVS data aligns with your Policy Survey responses. This newsletter outlines how those validations will help reduce survey response burden and assist you in submitting more accurate EAVS data.

• Vol. 3: Advice and Resources for New (and Returning) EAVS POCs

  This newsletter has advice for new (and returning) EAVS POCs about best practices and available resources for preparing to complete the survey. Returning POCs and EAC personnel share recommendations based on their past experience completing the EAVS.

• Vol. 4: Overview of the Data Collection Templates

  This newsletter provides information about the two data collection templates that will assist you in submitting data for the 2024 EAVS: the Excel template and the online template. It also highlights EAVS items that you may be able to collect in advance of the November 5, 2024 election.

• Vol. 5: Resources to Assist With the 2024 EAVS

  The data collection period for the 2024 EAVS has begun! This newsletter outlines the resources that are available to assist you with your data submission, highlights important project dates and deadlines, and reminds state POCs to reach out to the EAVS project team about plans to customize the online template.

• Vol. 6: Data Validations in the 2024 EAVS Templates

  The 2024 EAVS data collection templates contain data validations to improve the quality and accuracy of your data. This newsletter explains the types of validations that are used and how they appear within the Excel and online templates. Other highlights in this newsletter include: a list of items that may be pre-filled in your state’s or territory’s data templates based on your Policy Survey responses, and an invitation to EAVS POCs to revisit their 2024 Policy Survey submission for accuracy, as some election policies may have changed since the initial data submission.

• Vol. 7: Reporting Mail Voting in the 2024 EAVS

  This newsletter explains the three types of mail voting that EAVS collects data on—military and overseas ballots, mail ballots, and ballots in states or jurisdictions where all voting is done by mail—and how these ballots and voters are to be reported in Sections B, C, and F of the survey. It also highlights updates to ballot curing questions and describes how and where to report mail ballots returned, cured, accepted, and rejected in the 2024 EAVS.

• Vol. 8: Managing Online Submissions in the EAVS Portal

  States that rely on local jurisdictions to directly provide data for the 2024 EAVS, as well as territories and states that report their EAVS data as a single jurisdiction, may use the online template in their data collection plans. This newsletter shows how the EAVS Portal can be used to manage these submissions.

Policy Survey Crosswalk

• Policy Survey Crosswalk

  This crosswalk documents the changes that have been made to the Policy Survey questions between 2022 and 2024. It outlines changes in question numbering, question wording, and answer options, and notes which questions have comment spaces available so respondents can provide further details on their answers.

EAVS Glossary

• EAVS Glossary

  This glossary contains nearly 150 terms and phrases used in the survey questions for the 2024 EAVS and Policy Survey. The purpose of this glossary is to assist the state and local election officials who respond to these surveys in understanding the survey questions and providing data that are accurate and comprehensive, as well as to establish data consistency across states and jurisdictions.

EAVS Policy Guide

• A Guide to the Election Administration and Voting Survey

  This document provides information to election officials responsible for completing the EAVS and Policy Survey. It outlines what data are collected, the process and timeline for data submissions, how the EAC reports the results of the data, how updates to EAVS data sets are released to the public, and how the EAC makes changes to the survey questions. This document is especially useful to state election officials who are new to leading the EAVS for their state or territory.

Planned Changes to Section A of the 2024 EAVS

• Planned Changes to 2024 EAVS Section A

  This report was originally released in 2022 and provides information about changes the EAC will be implementing to Section A of the 2024 EAVS. This document can be shared with data vendors, IT staff, local election officials, and others who will be involved in providing voter registration data.