| Abstract: | The political fallout from the presidential election of 2000that landed on both state and local officials, HAVA's broadlywritten voter education requirement giving the state great latitudein defining education, and the act's block-grant funding allowingmore programmatic decisions to be made by county supervisorsof elections each played a role in improving voter educationin Florida. Relationships between state and local election officialsalso improved, even though the state legislature expanded therule-making and coordination roles of the state Division ofElections. Voter education efforts in the 2002 and 2004 electioncycles, much more extensive than in 2000, were judged to bequite effective by both the voters and the county election supervisors.Improvements in voter confidence and participation paralleledthe expanded voter education efforts in this highly competitivebattleground state. |
