Post-election Survey for Local Election Officials

Federal Voting Assistance Program
U.S. Department of Defense

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Each presidential election year, the Federal Voting Assistance Program (FVAP) conducts post-election surveys as required by the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act. These surveys help determine voter participation by military and overseas citizens in the electoral process and assist us in evaluating and improving our program. This survey is not the same as the election day survey conducted by the United States Election Assistance Commission.

Local election officials of various jurisdictions and size in each state will be selected at random to participate in the November survey. Those selected to take the survey will be provided with the information requested on the survey to track information throughout the election year, such as the number of Federal Post Card Application forms received, ballots issued, instances where ballots are not counted and why and number of Federal Write In Absentee Ballot received and counted.

To make tracking information easier, a data collection spreadsheet is available below. We will also e-mail the spreadsheet to participants for whom we have an e-mail address. Maintaining the tracking spreadsheet form throughout the year will greatly decrease the time it takes to complete the actual 2008 Local Election Official Post-Election Voting Survey after the election. The following materials for the 2008 election survey are available here on the FVAP website as expamples for Local Election Officials:

If contacted to take the survey, we strongly encourage you to participate, as your responses will play a very important part in improving the absentee voting process for military and overseas absentee voters. If you have any questions or comments regarding the data collection spreadsheet, survey, or how to maintain the data leading up to November 4th, please contact Ms. Erin E. St. Pierre at 1-800-438-8683 or vote@fvap.ncr.gov. Thank you in advance for your participation.

Note: To read the Acrobat files, you must have an Adobe Acrobat Reader, version 7 or higher, program to display them. If you do not have Acrobat Reader loaded on your computer, you can download it free from Adobe's web site: www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html.

To add data to the Excel form, you need Microsoft Excel 2003, or some other spreadsheet program that can open Excel 2003 files.