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Center for the Study of the American Electorate  

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  • The Center for the Study of the American Electorate, now affiliated with American University and its Center for Democracy and Election Management, has been for the past 31 years (for 30 years as an independent nonprofit) the principal source for data on voter registration and turnout in the United States. Over those 31 years, it has, each biennium, issued reports on registration and voting in primary and general elections for all elections for which there is a valid denominator of voting population for analyses. [Source: Encyclopedia of Political Communication; Center for the Study of the American Electorate]

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