Election Assistance Commission

aid: election-assistance-commission
name: Election Assistance Commission
description: 'The U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC) is an independent, bipartisan federal commission established by
  the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (HAVA). It adopts the Voluntary Voting System Guidelines, accredits voting system test
  laboratories, certifies voting systems, administers and audits HAVA grant funds, and is the national clearinghouse for election
  administration information. The EAC publishes no developer portal, no API documentation and no API key programme, but serves
  two real anonymous machine surfaces it does not advertise: a live read-only JSON:API 1.0 at https://www.eac.gov/jsonapi
  (Drupal 10, 216 resource types) carrying the certified voting system register, accredited test labs, manufacturers, Engineering
  Change Orders, Notices of Clarification, NVRA state pages, per-state registration deadlines, HAVA grant financials and 561
  Clearinghouse Awards; and a Project Open Data v1.1 catalog at https://www.eac.gov/data.json listing the EAVS bulk datasets.
  Both verified.'
kind: contract
deliveryModel:
  model: public-api
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: true
  label: Free public government API, anonymous and read-only
  confidence: high
  source:
  - https://www.eac.gov/jsonapi
  - https://www.eac.gov/data.json
  generated: '2026-09-06'
  method: probed
accessModel:
  pricing: free
  onboarding: none
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: true
  label: Free, no registration, anonymous access
  confidence: high
  source:
  - plans
  - https://www.eac.gov/jsonapi
  generated: '2026-09-06'
  method: probed
position: Producing
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/election-assistance-commission.png
tags:
- Federal-Government
- Elections
- Voting
- Open Data
- Voting-Systems
- Certification
- Government-Data
- JSON-API
- Public-Records
tags_raw:
- Federal Government
- Elections
- Voting
- Open Data
- Voting Systems
- Certification
- Government Data
- JSON API
- Public Records
created: '2024-12-03'
modified: '2026-09-06'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/election-assistance-commission/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: election-assistance-commission:eac
  name: EAC Content JSON:API
  description: 'A live, anonymous, read-only JSON:API 1.0 surface served by the EAC''s own Drupal 10 web platform at https://www.eac.gov/jsonapi.
    The EAC does not document, advertise or link to it from any developer page, and it has no developer portal — but the surface
    is real: probed 2026-09-06, the resource index returned HTTP 200 with 216 entity--bundle link relations, 210 of which
    answered with application/vnd.api+json and 86 of which returned substantive records. It carries the machine form of the
    EAC''s regulatory estate — 117 voting systems in the Testing and Certification Program, 8 accredited Voting System Test
    Laboratories, 20 registered manufacturers, 5 VVSG testing standards, 275 Engineering Change Orders, 27 Notices of Clarification,
    155 NVRA state pages, 113 state election information records, 56 per-state registration and voting records, HAVA Election
    Security and state grant financials, and 561 Clearinghouse Award entries. It is read-only by site configuration: every
    write verb returns HTTP 405 "JSON:API is configured to accept only read operations". No key, no account, no OAuth. The
    OpenAPI description in this repository was DERIVED BY API EVANGELIST from those live probes; the EAC publishes none.'
  humanURL: https://www.eac.gov/research-and-data
  baseURL: https://www.eac.gov/jsonapi
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  tags:
  - Federal-Government
  - Elections
  - Voting
  - Voting-Systems
  - Certification
  - Open Data
  - JSON-API
  tags_raw:
  - Federal Government
  - Elections
  - Voting
  - Voting Systems
  - Certification
  - Open Data
  - JSON API
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/election-assistance-commission-jsonapi-openapi.yml
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/election-assistance-commission-jsonapi-overlay.yaml
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/_index.yml
  - type: DataModel
    url: data-model/election-assistance-commission-data-model.yml
  - type: Vocabulary
    url: vocabulary/election-assistance-commission-vocabulary.yml
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/election-assistance-commission-authentication.yml
  - type: Conventions
    url: conventions/election-assistance-commission-conventions.yml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/election-assistance-commission-problem-types.yml
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/election-assistance-commission-conformance.yml
  - type: Lifecycle
    url: lifecycle/election-assistance-commission-lifecycle.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/election-assistance-commission-rate-limits.yml
  - type: Plans
    url: plans/election-assistance-commission-plans-pricing.yml
  - type: AgentSkill
    url: skills/_index.yml
  - type: X-MCPServerCandidate
    url: mcp/election-assistance-commission-mcp.yml
  - type: LLMsTxt
    url: llms/election-assistance-commission-llms.txt
  - type: ResearchAndData
    url: https://www.eac.gov/research-and-data
- aid: election-assistance-commission:data-catalog
  name: EAC Open Data Catalog
  description: 'The EAC''s federal open-data inventory, served at https://www.eac.gov/data.json and declaring conformance
    to the Project Open Data / DCAT-US v1.1 schema in the document itself. Probed 2026-09-06: HTTP 200, 11 datasets, chiefly
    the Election Administration and Voting Survey (EAVS) series from 2012 through 2024 plus EAC research reports. This is
    where the EAVS microdata lives — it is NOT carried by the JSON:API surface, whose EAVS-named resource types return empty
    collections. The catalog is not linked from any EAC developer or data page and is not referenced from a /.well-known/api-catalog;
    it is discoverable only by knowing the federal /data.json convention.'
  humanURL: https://www.eac.gov/research-and-data/studies-and-reports
  baseURL: https://www.eac.gov
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  tags:
  - Federal-Government
  - Elections
  - Open Data
  - Datasets
  - EAVS
  tags_raw:
  - Federal Government
  - Elections
  - Open Data
  - Datasets
  - EAVS
  properties:
  - type: Datasets
    url: datasets/election-assistance-commission-datasets.yml
  - type: X-DataCatalog
    url: https://www.eac.gov/data.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.eac.gov/research-and-data/eavs-faqs
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
common:
- 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: EAC Research and Data
  url: https://www.eac.gov/research-and-data
  type: Documentation
- 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 News
  url: https://www.eac.gov/news
  type: Newsroom
- name: EAC Blogs
  url: https://www.eac.gov/blogs
  type: Blog
- name: Contact the EAC
  url: https://www.eac.gov/contact
  type: Contact
- name: Contact the EAC
  url: https://www.eac.gov/contact
  type: Support
- name: EAC on GitHub
  url: https://github.com/eacgov
  type: GitHubOrganization
- name: EAC Privacy Statement
  url: https://www.eac.gov/main/privacy-statement
  type: PrivacyPolicy
- name: EAC Accessibility Statement
  url: https://www.eac.gov/accessibility-statement
  type: Accessibility
- name: Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)
  url: https://www.eac.gov/foia/freedom-information-act-foia
  type: FOIA
- name: EAC Vulnerability Disclosure Policy
  url: https://www.eac.gov/vulnerability-disclosure-policy
  type: Security
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/election-assistance-commission-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/election-assistance-commission-domain-security.yml
- type: X-WellKnownProbe
  url: well-known/election-assistance-commission-well-known.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/election-assistance-commission-packages.yml
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/u-s-election-assistance-commission
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-09-06'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 28
  pass: local-v3