Election Reform Newsletter, Issue #30
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On Topic: Technology Issues |
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Can Collaboration Promote Change? |
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As Congress and the states continue to wrestle with issues related to electronic voting machines, new Congressional testimony from the GAO and a new audit of the 2006 election in Cuyahoga County, Ohio highlight the value of collaboration in tackling these problems. Read more » |
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| Diagnosing Problems and Developing Solutions |
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In partnership with the Pew Charitable Trusts' Make Voting Work initiative and the JEHT Foundation, the Pew Center on the States has issued a Request for Proposals. Allocating up to $2 million, this RFP focuses on diagnosing how well U.S. elections are run and planning pilot projects testing solutions to be conducted in 2007 and 2008.
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| Testing the Turnout Hypothesis |
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While many advocates of voting-by-mail argue that it will increase voter participation, researchers continue to question this assumption. In a new study, Thad Kousser and Megan Mullin use a "natural experiment" in California to explore this question and find that the effects on turnout are mixed at best.
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Public Meeting: Voluntary Voting System Guidelines
Technical Guidelines Development Committee, U.S. Election Assistance Commission
May 21-22, 2007
Gaithersburg, MD |
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About The Election
Reform Project |
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The AEI-Brookings Election Reform Project aims to synthesize election-related research, link the research and policy communities, track and assist the implemen-
tation of the Help America Vote Act (HAVA) and encourage improvements in HAVA and in election conduct and administration. |
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Project Vote
Based upon election data collected since the passage of HAVA, this Project Vote memo recommends adopting a number of policies in order to increase the number of provisional ballots counted in future elections.
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U.S. Election Assistance Commission
The Election Assistance Commission recently published its eighth report on implementation of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993, which focused on the administration of the November 2006 and November 2008 elections.
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Mary K. Garber, Florida Fair Elections Center
This report finds that the increase in the no-valid-vote rate in the 2008 presidential race in Florida was due to excessive overvoting statewide, not to the change in voting technologies.
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American Association for the Advancement of Science
The Research Database on the U.S. Voting System and Voting Technology provides access to empirical and analytical research about voting and elections to inform evidence-based reforms.
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Committee to Modernize Voter Registration
The Committee to Modernize Voter Registration, composed of former state and federal lawmakers, state election administrators, election law experts, and academics was recently formed to advocate for an automated, transferable system to replace today's out-of-date and patchwork system.
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University of Connecticut
The mission of the VoTeR center is to advise state agencies in the use of voting technologies and to investigate voting solutions and voting equipment to develop and recommend safe use procedures for their usage in elections.
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NYU School of Law
The Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law is a non-partisan public policy and law institute that focuses on fundamental issues of democracy and justice.
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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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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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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.
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