generated: '2026-09-06' method: probed source: https://www.eac.gov/data.json provider: Election Assistance Commission providerId: election-assistance-commission summary: The EAC serves a real, conformant federal open-data catalog at https://www.eac.gov/data.json (HTTP 200, Project Open Data / DCAT-US v1.1). It is the machine index of the bulk data the EAC actually wants people to use — above all the Election Administration and Voting Survey (EAVS) microdata, which the JSON:API surface does NOT carry. The catalog is not linked from any developer page, is not referenced from /.well-known/api-catalog, and is not mentioned on the Research and Data landing page; it is discoverable only by knowing the federal convention. catalog: url: https://www.eac.gov/data.json http_status: 200 conformsTo: https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema describedBy: https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json context: https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld type: dcat:Catalog dataset_count: 11 saved_verbatim: datasets/election-assistance-commission-data-json.json assessment: strengths: - Valid Project Open Data v1.1 catalog with @context, conformsTo and describedBy declared. - Rich keyword vocabulary per dataset (domestic absentee voting, provisional ballots, poll workers, voting technology). - Covers the EAVS series from 2012 through 2024. gaps: - Only 11 datasets, and 5 of the 11 are PDF reports rather than data. - One entry ("Measuring the Impact of Recent Grants to Election Administrators Under the Help America Vote Act") carries the literal identifier "N/A" and two distributions with no format declared — a broken record in an otherwise valid catalog. - Several distributions declare format as a prose list ("CSV, Excel, SPSS, Stata, SAS") in a single string rather than one distribution per format, so a machine cannot select a format. - The 2022 EAVS entry declares mediaType text/html — a link to a page, not a dataset. - Nothing in the catalog references the live JSON:API at https://www.eac.gov/jsonapi, and nothing in the JSON:API references the catalog. The EAC publishes two machine surfaces that do not know about each other. datasets: - title: 2018 Election Administration and Voting Survey identifier: EAVS2018 modified: '2022-06-28T20:36:08.196Z' accessLevel: public distributions: - format: CSV, Excel, SPSS, Stata, SAS mediaType: text/html downloadURL: https://www.eac.gov/research-and-data/datasets-codebooks-and-surveys accessURL: null keyword: - domestic absentee voting - election administration - elections - military absentee voting - overseas citizen voting - poll workers - polling places - precinct - provisional ballots - voting technology - title: 2016 Election Administration and Voting Survey identifier: EAVS2016 modified: '2017-06-30' issued: '2017-06-01' accessLevel: public landingPage: https://www.eac.gov/research-and-data/datasets-codebooks-and-surveys distributions: - format: CSV, Excel, SPSS, Stata mediaType: text/html downloadURL: https://www.eac.gov/research-and-data/datasets-codebooks-and-surveys accessURL: null keyword: - domestic absentee voting - election administration - elections - military absentee voting - overseas citizen voting - poll workers - polling places - precinct - provisional ballots - voting technology - title: 2014 Election Administration and Voting Survey identifier: EAVS2014 modified: '2015-06-30' issued: '2015-06-30' accessLevel: public landingPage: https://www.eac.gov/research-and-data/datasets-codebooks-and-surveys distributions: - format: Excel, SPSS, DBF mediaType: text/html downloadURL: https://www.eac.gov/research-and-data/datasets-codebooks-and-surveys accessURL: null keyword: - domestic absentee voting - election administration - elections - military absentee voting - overseas citizen voting - poll workers - polling places - precinct - provisional ballots - voting technology - title: 2012 Election Administration and Voting Survey identifier: EAVS2012 modified: '2013-09-01' issued: '2013-09-01' accessLevel: public landingPage: https://www.eac.gov/research-and-data/datasets-codebooks-and-surveys distributions: - format: Excel, SPSS, DBF mediaType: text/html downloadURL: https://www.eac.gov/research-and-data/datasets-codebooks-and-surveys accessURL: null keyword: - domestic absentee voting - election administration - elections - military absentee voting - overseas citizen voting - poll workers - polling places - precinct - provisional ballots - voting technology - title: 2020 Election Administration and Voting Survey identifier: EAVS2020 modified: '2023-11-27T20:54:55.432Z' issued: '2021-08-16' accessLevel: public landingPage: https://www.eac.gov/research-and-data/datasets-codebooks-and-surveys distributions: - format: CSV, Excel, SPSS, Stata, SAS mediaType: text/html downloadURL: https://www.eac.gov/research-and-data/datasets-codebooks-and-surveys accessURL: null keyword: - domestic absentee voting - election administration - elections - military absentee voting - overseas citizen voting - poll workers - polling places - precinct - provisional ballots - voting technology - title: 2022 Election Administration and Voting Survey identifier: EAVS2022 modified: '2024-04-05T19:55:41.146Z' issued: '2023-06-01' accessLevel: public landingPage: https://www.eac.gov/research-and-data/studies-and-reports distributions: - format: null mediaType: text/html downloadURL: https://www.eac.gov/research-and-data/studies-and-reports accessURL: null keyword: - Elections - civilian absentee voting - election administration - military absentee voting - overseas citizen voting - poll workers - polling places - precinct - provisional ballots - voter registration - voting technology - title: Measuring the Impact of Recent Grants to Election Administrators Under the Help America Vote Act identifier: N/A modified: '2025-05-22T18:11:12.627Z' issued: '2024-12-01' accessLevel: public landingPage: https://www.eac.gov/sites/default/files/2025-01/Election_Security_Grant_Report_Final_508.pdf distributions: - format: null mediaType: null downloadURL: null accessURL: https://www.eac.gov/research-and-data/report-measuring-impact-recent-grants-election-administrators-under-hava - format: null mediaType: null downloadURL: null accessURL: https://www.eac.gov/research-and-data/report-measuring-impact-recent-grants-election-administrators-under-hava keyword: - Elections - election administration - election grants - election security - title: The History, Evolution, and Future Directions of the Election Administration and Voting Survey (EAVS) identifier: eavshist modified: '2025-09-18T20:35:18.816Z' issued: '2025-05-28' accessLevel: public landingPage: https://www.eac.gov/research-and-data/eavs-retrospective distributions: - format: null mediaType: application/pdf downloadURL: null accessURL: null keyword: - domestic absentee voting - domestic elections - military absentee voting - overseas citizen voting - poll workers - polling places - precinct - provisional ballots - voter registration - voting technology - title: Election Administration and Voting Survey 2024 Comprehensive Report identifier: 2024EAVS modified: '2025-09-19T15:22:00.840Z' issued: '2025-06-01' accessLevel: public landingPage: https://www.eac.gov/research-and-data/studies-and-reports distributions: - format: null mediaType: application/pdf downloadURL: https://www.eac.gov/research-and-data/studies-and-reports accessURL: null keyword: - Elections - civilian absentee voting - election administration - military absentee voting - overseas citizen voting - poll workers - polling places - precinct - provisional ballots - voter registration - voting technology - title: Strengthening the Election Workforce Opportunities to Enhance Capacity and Readiness identifier: Workforce1 modified: '2026-08-26T19:27:03.068Z' issued: '2026-06-16' accessLevel: public landingPage: https://www.eac.gov/sites/default/files/2026-06/Strengthening_the_Election_Workforce_EAC_FINAL.pdf distributions: - format: null mediaType: application/pdf downloadURL: https://www.eac.gov/sites/default/files/2026-06/Strengthening_the_Election_Workforce_EAC_FINAL.pdf accessURL: null keyword: - domestic elections - election staffing - election workforce - election workforce classification - title: Evaluating Federal Grant Programs to Improve Voting Accessibility identifier: Accessibilitygrants1 modified: '2026-08-26T19:42:10.292Z' issued: '2026-08-01' accessLevel: public landingPage: https://www.eac.gov/sites/default/files/2026-08/EAC_Report_Federal_Grant_Programs_to_Improve_Voting_Accessibility.pdf distributions: - format: null mediaType: application/pdf downloadURL: https://www.eac.gov/sites/default/files/2026-08/EAC_Report_Federal_Grant_Programs_to_Improve_Voting_Accessibility.pdf accessURL: null keyword: - Accessibility - accessibility grants - domestic elections - election accessibility maintainers: - FN: Kin Lane email: kin@apievangelist.com