OVF [Overseas Vote Foundation] released its 2010 Post Election Overseas and Military Voter Survey and Local Election Official Survey Report today. Drawing from responses from more than 5,000 voters in 140 countries and more than 1,550 local election officials in the US, today's 30-page report measures the impact of the Military and Overseas Voter Empowerment (MOVE) Act on the 2010 General Election.
The report demonstrates that the MOVE Act has begun to shift overseas voting trends in a new and welcome direction. Highlights of the report include:
In 2010, 82 percent of voters received the ballot they requested; this represents a five percent improvement over 2008.
Only 16.5 percent of 2010 overseas voters said they received their ballots after the middle of October; while MOVE is designed to decrease this number to zero percent, this still represents a significant decrease from 2008, when 28 percent of overseas voters reported receiving their ballots in late October.
The success of the MOVE Act reforms in 2010 was mitigated, however, by other survey findings, including a high level of confusion among voters and election officials around registration/ballot request form re-filing requirements in 2010; a measurable lack of efficiency in new ballot request methods via email and fax in comparison to delivery via the postal system; and low marks from local election officials for new online ballot delivery and online ballot tracking techniques.
You may download the full copy of the Report and its Executive Summary via the link above.
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