Press release: The United States Election Assistance Commission (EAC) today voted on the findings of the “Voting Fraud and Voter Intimidation Study” and accepted recommendations to conduct a comprehensive assessment of all claims, charges and prosecutions of voting crimes. The study represents the first phase of the information gathering process and includes a working definition of election crimes. EAC will now proceed with the second phase, a more comprehensive data-driven survey and study of elections crimes and voter intimidation. The new phase will offer consistency to the study and will identify a common definition of the issue for dialogue among elections officials, civil rights and voter advocacy groups, law enforcement officials, attorneys and the public.”