Election Officials Urged to Complete 2026 Voting Survey by May
Published Date: 4/23/2026
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Summary
The Election Assistance Commission is asking election officials to fill out the 2026 Election Administration and Voting Survey, which covers everything from voter registration to election technology. This helps improve how elections run and makes voting easier for everyone. Officials need to send their feedback by May 25, 2026, and there’s no direct cost, just some time to share their info.
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Which Offices Must Respond
If you are a state or local election official (including the District of Columbia and U.S. territories), your office is one of the 56 respondents asked to complete the 2026 Election Administration and Voting Survey once. The survey is collected biennially and covers the period from the Federal general election day 2024 +1 through the November 2026 Federal general election.
Meets NVRA and UOCAVA Reporting
If your office completes the voter-registration and UOCAVA sections of this survey, you will meet your reporting duties under the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA) at 52 U.S.C. 20508 and the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act (UOCAVA) at 52 U.S.C. 20302. Completing the survey satisfies those statutory reporting requirements.
Time Burden and Deadline
If your office responds, the agency estimates an average burden of 83 hours per collection (41.5 hours annualized). The EAC requests written comments on the collection and sets a submission deadline for comments of May 25, 2026.
EAC Shares Data With FVAP
The EAC will provide UOCAVA-related data to the Department of Defense's Federal Voting Assistance Program (FVAP) after collection is completed. This data sharing reduces the need for FVAP to run a separate data collection and thus reduces burden on local election offices.
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