Voting in 2008: Lessons Learned (PDF)
The American election system may have avoided a meltdown during the 2008 election, but issues did arise that preventing a completely smooth Election Day. In this report, Common Cause’s Tova Wang explores several such concerns (including long lines and deceptive practices) and makes recommendation on how to prevent them from happening in the future.

Read the report here (PDF).
Featured Resources
The EAC will hear testimony on vote counting and recounting from representatives of Washington, Virginia, and California, as well as from election reform scholars.
In this paper, the authors examine one specific aspect of the debate over voter identification by analyzing which segments of the population possess driver's licenses and how those individuals are likely to vote.
In this new piece, the Election Reform Project’s Jessica Leval reviews The Hidden Costs of Clean Election Reform, by Frederic Charles Schaffer, summarizing Schaffer’s major points and examples, and assessing his proposals for mitigating the potentially negative effects of policy change.
This report examines ten states with a history of election problems and potentially close races in the 2006 election cycle. Asking "are we any better off today than we were two years ago?," the authors explore issues including voter registration, voter identification, and pollworker recruitment.
This paper, presented at the 2006 meeting of the American Political Science Association, explores ways in which voter turnout is negatively affected by different voter identification rules ranging from simply requiring voters to state their names to mandating that they present photo identification.
Research Projects
Election Law @ Moritz, run through Moritz College of Law at the Ohio State University, contains both explanation and commentary on a wealth of election reform issues from a legal perspective.
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.
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.
As part of its broader research focus on elections, campaign ethics, campaign finance, and the legislative process, the Center for American Politics and Citizenship at the University of Maryland is engaged in research projects on voting technology and ballot design specifically.
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