Stories by Scott Novakowski
Scott Novakowski is a Senior Policy Analyst in the Democracy Program at Demos, a non-partisan public policy center. For the last three years he has been working on a national campaign to improve state compliance with the National Voter Registration Act, in addition to extensive research and writing on election administration and voting rights concerns in the U.S.
As North Carolina, Michigan, Virginia and Missouri ask public aid recipients if they want to register to vote, thousands of new voters are added.
Posted on Oct 7, 2008
Unregistered voters create an unrepresentative electorate -- one of the greatest threats to a fair, democratic system.
Posted on Sep 13, 2008