The smartphone app hosts many additional features such as: voter registration information, voter specific polling place information, sample ballots, access to Associated Press real-time election coverage, videos, candidate and local ballot initiative information, and election results.

ENGADGET: AT&T launches VoteHub, brings the presidential election to your pocket

At stake in these battles is not simply what form of identification voters must remember to put in their pockets on election day, or what information voter-registration volunteers must remember to include on their forms, but possibly the presidency itself.

ECONOMIST: Election laws

The commission is also asking states to create statewide voter registration lists so everyone has access to the same voter information and so mistakes can be minimized.

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