Letter Report on Electronic Voting
Drawing on testimony from federal, state, and local officials, this report assesses the readiness of electronic voting systems in the November 2006 elections. Election officials express concern about a number of areas, including the implementation of HAVA and state legislative requirements.
Click here for a description of the report.
Click here to access the report.
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Jamie Hester, AEI-Brookings Election Reform Project
In this piece, Election Reform Project intern Jamie Hester examines voting machine irregularities in New Jersey's presidential primary and calls for more transparency from systems manufacturers for investigating similar incidents in the future.
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electionline.org
Electionline.org surveys the state of election reform in 2006 and compares it to that of 2000. The report provides state-by-state data in the areas of voting systems, voter ID requirements, provisional voting, and more.
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David Jefferson (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, University of California/U.S. Department of Energy), National Academy of Engineering of the National Academies
In this article, the author, a computer scientist, summarizes a number of potential explanations for the undervote problem in Florida's 13th Congressional District in 2006, and offers several ideas for future progress.
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David Dill and Will Doherty, Verified Voting
This report details arguments about the shortcomings of electronic voting machines, focusing on anecdotal information from the 2004 election.
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U.S. Election Assistance Commission
The U.S. Election Assistance Commission highlights key steps administrators should follow when implementing new voting systems. A more comphrensive guide will follow.
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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.
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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
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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.
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University of Maryland
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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