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What "the 2024 EAVS" Actually Points To
"The 2024 EAVS" names a survey cycle, not one dataset. The EAC released two dated versions of it — here is what settles which is which.
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What matters now
- The EAVS reporting cycle is set by federal regulation, with state reports due by March 31 of odd-numbered years.
- The EAC published the 2024 EAVS Comprehensive Report on June 30, 2025.
- EAVS Datasets and Policy Survey Version 1.0 were both released June 30, 2025.
- EAVS Datasets and Policy Survey Version 2.0 followed on February 12, 2026.
- A 2026 EAVS Federal Register notice lists its OMB number as pending.
A citation that simply says “the 2024 EAVS” (Election Administration and Voting Survey) does not identify a single, fixed dataset. The 2024 survey cycle is fixed by year and by federal regulation, but the U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC) has released the 2024-cycle data and its companion Policy Survey in two separate, dated versions — Version 1.0 and Version 2.0. Without a version number and a release date attached, “the 2024 EAVS” alone does not tell a reader which release is meant. This article addresses only those two 2024-cycle releases; it does not compare them to the three earlier versions (1.0, 1.1, and 1.2) released for the 2020 cycle.
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Key points
- The EAVS reporting cycle is set by federal regulation: state election officials must submit their reports “by March 31 of each odd-numbered year” (11 CFR §9428.7(a), https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-11/chapter-II/part-9428).
- The EAC published the 2024 EAVS “Comprehensive Report” on June 30, 2025 (https://www.eac.gov/research-and-data/studies-and-reports).
- That same date also released EAVS Datasets and Policy Survey “Version 1.0” (https://www.eac.gov/research-and-data/studies-and-reports).
- The EAC later released EAVS Datasets and Policy Survey “Version 2.0” on February 12, 2026 (https://www.eac.gov/research-and-data/studies-and-reports).
- The next cycle is already in motion: a Federal Register notice lists the 2026 survey’s OMB number as “Pending” (https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/04/23/2026-07930/agency-information-collection-activities-2026-election-administration-and-voting-survey).
Regulatory cycle vs. release date
The EAVS runs on a schedule set in federal rule, not on whatever date the EAC happens to publish a report. Under the Election Assistance Commission’s grant regulations, state reports are due “by March 31 of each odd-numbered year” (11 CFR §9428.7(a), https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-11/chapter-II/part-9428). That rule fixes when states report for a given cycle — it says nothing about how many times the EAC may publish or revise the resulting dataset afterward. That gap is exactly where “the 2024 EAVS” stops working as a unique identifier: the year names the cycle, not the release.
Two dated 2024 releases
For the 2024 cycle specifically, the EAC’s own release list shows two rounds, each with its own version number and date:
- “On June 30, 2025, the EAC published the biennial Election Administration and Voting Survey (EAVS) Comprehensive Report,” alongside “EAVS Datasets Version 1.0 (released June 30, 2025)” and “Policy Survey Version 1.0 (released June 30, 2025)” (https://www.eac.gov/research-and-data/studies-and-reports).
- “EAVS Datasets Version 2.0 (released February 12, 2026)” and “Policy Survey Version 2.0 (released February 12, 2026)” followed as a later, separately dated release (https://www.eac.gov/research-and-data/studies-and-reports).
Any reference to “the 2024 EAVS” that omits the version number and release date is, by the EAC’s own listing, referring to one of at least two distinct, dated releases — not to a single fixed file. This article settles only which dated release that label points to; it does not report, characterize, or draw any conclusion from any figure contained in either the EAVS datasets or the Policy Survey, in any version, and it makes no claim about what the data shows about any state’s election administration.
Next cycle’s pending paperwork
The survey mechanism keeps moving forward on its regulatory clock. A Federal Register notice for the 2026 cycle states: “Title and OMB Number: 2026 Election Administration and Voting Survey; OMB Number Pending” (https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/04/23/2026-07930/agency-information-collection-activities-2026-election-administration-and-voting-survey). That confirms the 2026 cycle’s federal information-collection clearance had not yet been assigned an OMB number as of that notice — a separate, still-open step from anything settled about the 2024 cycle’s two releases.