AEI-Brookings Election Reform Project:
The 2006 Elections-Are We Ready?
September 22, 2006
On Friday, September 22, the AEI-Brookings Election Reform Project will host a conference entitled "The 2006 Elections--Are We Ready?" The event will take place at the American Enterprise Institute, 1150 Seventeenth St. NW, Washington, DC from 8 AM to 12:30 PM.
After a keynote address by Congressman Rush Holt (D-N.J.), panelists will discuss the progress that has been made since the election debacle of 2000 and the hurdles that remain. The
first panel will discuss the progress of technological reforms and electronic voting, and the second panel will look at the implementation successes and failures of the 2002 Help America Vote Act (HAVA).
Agenda:
8:15 a.m. Registration & Breakfast
8:30 a.m. Keynote Address: Congressman Rush Holt (D-N.J.)
9:00 a.m. Panel I: Progress and Pitfalls in Voting Technology
Panelists: Steven Hertzberg, Election Science Institute
Michael I. Shamos, Carnegie Mellon University
Charles Stewart III, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Moderator: Norman J. Ornstein, AEI
11:00 a.m. Panel II: HAVA—What Has Been Done? What Remains to Do?
Panelists:Deborah Markowitz, Vermont Secretary of State
Donetta L. Davidson, Election Assistance Commission
Edward B. Foley, Ohio State University
R. Doug Lewis, The Election Center
Moderator: Thomas E. Mann, Brookings Institution
12:30 p.m. Adjournment
|
Douglass R. Hess & Jody Herman, Project Vote
Although ethnic diversity of the U.S. has been increasing, voter registrations have not followed this trend. A new report finds that although the voting population is still unrepresentative of the American population at large, the 2008 voting population was more diverse than in years past.
|
|
Myrna Perez, Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law
This report reviews individual state guidelines regarding registration when voters move, and finds that they are inconsistently applied, confusing to both voters and officials, and that current federal and state law protections are overly limiting.
|
|
Voting Technology Research Center
Post-election audits determine whether discrepancies between hand and machine ballot counts exist. Analysis of the 2008 election results in Connecticut find discrepancies in the vote counts caused by hand counting errors or vote misallocation, not as a result of machine tabulations.
|
|
Ohio State Senate
The Ohio State Senate approved legislation to reform various aspects of the elections process. Among the measures are enhancements to early voting rules, adoption of a matching system between voter registration files and driver’s license data, and compliance with the recently passed MOVE Act.
|
|
AEI-Brookings Election Reform Project
|
|
|
University of California, Berkeley
Part of the Institute for Governmental Studies at the University of California at Berkeley, the Election Administration Research Center (EARC) aims to improve the administration of elections.
|
|
|
This project aims to evaluate the current state of reliability and uniformity of U.S. voting systems; to establish uniform attributes and quantitative guidelines for performance and reliability of voting systems; and to propose specific uniform guidelines and requirements for reliable voting systems
|
|
FairVote develops and promotes practical strategies to improve elections at the local, state and national levels.
|
|
Center for Democracy & Election Management was established at the School of Public Affairs at American University in 2002. Their broader goal is to pave the way for and strengthen democracy through improved electoral performance.
|
|
|
The Pew Center on the States
electionline.org provides daily news updates on election reform issues, as well as deeper analysis of selected topics, including recent reports on voter registration, recount procedures, and the progress in implementing the Help America Vote Act since 2002.
|
|
|