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Third-party voter registration
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Third-party voter registration is when a person, entity or organization solicits or encourages others to register to vote in a given state. Typically, third party voter registration organizations that seek to register voters are working on behalf of a group that is conducting a voter registration drive.[1]
A potential voter's spouse, child or parent are not considered a third-party voter registration organization. Additionally, government employees or election officials do not qualify as third-party voter registration organizations.[2]
Petition drives differentiated
Third-party voter registration drives are similar to petition drives, except that in a petition drive, a circulator is asking a voter to sign a petition to support a specific issue such as qualifying an initiative for the ballot.[3] In a third-party voter registration drive, the solicitor is asking a person to sign up to become a registered voter.
See also
- Voter registration
- Voter registration drive
- Third party ballot access
- Laws governing third-party voter registration
- Ballotpedia:Index of Terms
Footnotes
- ↑ Supervisor of Elections, Duval County: "Third party voter registration organizations," accessed December 16, 2013 (dead link)
- ↑ Supervisor of Elections, Volusia County, Florida: "Third-party voter registration," accessed December 16, 2013
- ↑ Community Tool Box: "Section 9. Conducting a petition drive," accessed December 16, 2013
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