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NCSL tracks election and campaign issues in several major categories: campaign finance, election policy and administration, election results and analysis, and initiative and referendum. The organization provides comprehensive 50-state research and analysis on a wide variety of topics related to these issues. Additionally, NCSL's Redistricting and Elections Standing Committee works on issues that affect all states and hosts meetings of national interest.

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2024 State Primary Election Dates

This page provides state primary and presidential election dates for 2024 when legislative, congressional, gubernatorial, statewide office and presidential primary contests will be on the ballots in 46 states.
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2020 Redistricting Deviation Table

Several methods exist to measure the extent to which populations of all the districts in a plan vary, or differ collectively from the "ideal." The method expressed on this page is "Overall Range."
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Election-Related Enactments

NCSL provides an annual roundup and analysis of all enactments relating to elections policy, including voter registration, voter verification, voting technology, primaries, counting and auditing, campaigning, and more. This webpage collates the last several years’ roundups.
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Automatic Voter Registration

Several states have passed legislation to implement automatic voter registration, where voters are automatically registered when they go to the motor vehicle agency unless they opt-out.
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