Establishment of the Presidential Commission on Election Administration
Headline: Creates Commission to Improve Federal Election Administration and Voting Access
What it does: The General Services Administration must provide administrative support, staff, and facilities to the Commission, subject to law and available appropriations.
- Creates a temporary commission to review and recommend improvements to election administration.
- Highlights voting access issues for military, overseas, disabled, and limited-English voters.
- Produces recommendations on polling places, poll worker training, and voting technology.
Summary
This order creates the Presidential Commission on Election Administration to study how to make federal elections run more smoothly and to improve the voting experience.
The commission will have up to nine members, two co-chairs, hold public meetings, and gather input from federal, state, and local officials and outside experts. It will focus on polling places, poll workers, voter rolls, voting machines, absentee and provisional ballots, accessibility for military, overseas, disabled, and limited-English voters, and disaster contingency planning, and must report to the President within six months.
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