ACA American Citizens Abroad

Overseas Vote Foundation (OVF) and the Open Source Digital Voting Foundation’s (OSDV) TrustTheVoteProject have announced an agreement to co-develop a new XML data model for the electronic exchange of voter registration data

The model, to be constructed for states’ free adoption, will allow states to establish standards for the structure, organization and exchange of this data. It “will make it possible for States to electronically accept registration form data and then rapidly verify the applicant’s record with the physical signed copy as received”. Susan Dzieduszycka-Suinat of OVF said, “Working the TrustTheVoteProject allows us to combine their technical expertise and our experience in handling voter registration processes from the unique perspective of overseas voting….”
See the full release on the OVF website .

The second issue of the OVF Research Newsletter features, among other things, an interesting article on the differing methods of obtaining survey data on overseas and military voters used by the Federal Voting Assistance Program, the U.S. Election Assistance Commission and Overseas Vote Foundation. It is available on the OVF website, where you can also subscribe to receive issues regularly.