ABSTRACT
The electoral geography has long been of interest to geographers, it has focused largely on the choices voters make or on the way electoral district boundaries are drawn. Drawing largely from the results of the 2008 Election Administration and Voting Survey, sponsored by the US Election Assistance Commission. This chapter aims to lay the groundwork for a better engagement between geography and the question of how elections are run in the United States. The starting point for this geography of election administration, include: Such issues are of growing interest to political scientists, legal scholars and election professionals. The chapter focuses on state- and regional-differences; the county-level data available from the EAC can be readily mined to highlight local differences as well. The tug-of-war that is embedded in the current landscape of American voting and described briefly in this chapter is largely the result of two distinctly American facets of democracy.
