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Election Assistance Commission has not met mandates

By The Center for Public Integrity

December 10, 2008

The EAC is under-resourced and has been unable to establish and maintain a clearinghouse of information on state and local voting systems

Excerpts from this story referencing "Help America Vote Act":

"… he nation’s voting problems. The commission, created as part of the 2002 Help America Vote Act (HAVA), is an “independent, bipartisan commission” tasked with “deve …"

"… icisms. She noted that the EAC’s power is limited by the mandates of the Help America Vote Act and that the GAO recently recommended that Congress expand the Commission� …"