Election Assistance Commission

aid: election-assistance-commission
name: Election Assistance Commission
description: The U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC) was established by the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (HAVA). The
  EAC is an independent, bipartisan commission charged with developing guidance to meet HAVA requirements, adopting voluntary
  voting system guidelines, and serving as a national clearinghouse of information on election administration. The EAC also
  accredits testing laboratories, certifies voting systems, and audits the use of HAVA funds. The EAC publishes the Election
  Administration and Voting Survey (EAVS) datasets and operates an RSS news feed; it does not publish a formal developer API.
kind: contract
position: Consumer
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
tags:
- Federal Government
- Elections
- Voting
- Open Data
created: '2024-12-03'
modified: '2026-04-28'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/election-assistance-commission/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: election-assistance-commission:eac
  name: Election Assistance Commission
  description: Public-facing presence of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission. The EAC publishes Election Administration
    and Voting Survey (EAVS) datasets, codebooks, voluntary voting system guidelines, voter list maintenance studies, and
    accessibility reports. Machine-readable access is currently limited to dataset downloads and an RSS news feed rather than
    a REST API.
  humanURL: https://www.eac.gov
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  tags:
  - Federal Government
  - Elections
  - Voting
  - Open Data
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.eac.gov
  - type: ResearchAndData
    url: https://www.eac.gov/research-and-data
  - type: RSS
    url: https://www.eac.gov/rss.xml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
common:
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/u-s-election-assistance-commission
- name: EAC Website
  url: https://www.eac.gov
  type: Website
- name: EAC Research and Data
  url: https://www.eac.gov/research-and-data
  type: ResearchAndData
- name: Election Administration and Voting Survey
  url: https://www.eac.gov/research-and-data/studies-and-reports
  type: Datasets
- name: Voluntary Voting System Guidelines
  url: https://www.eac.gov/voting-equipment/voluntary-voting-system-guidelines
  type: Standards
- name: EAC News RSS Feed
  url: https://www.eac.gov/rss.xml
  type: RSS
- name: EAC Contact
  url: https://www.eac.gov/contact_us
  type: Contact