Election Reform Newsletter, Issue #82
Election Reform Newsletter
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September 23, 2009
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On Topic: Voting Integrity
The implementation of stricter voter identification laws for in-person voting has raised questions on the constitutionality of these requirements and of their effect on counting valid ballots.
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This paper examines the impact of electoral laws on turnout. The authors find that by aggregating turnout among different demographic groups, they can estimate the impact of electoral reforms over time.
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The security risks inherent in internet-based voting today pose significant barriers to the adoption of this method in nationwide elections. The author suggests changes to both internet security and the allocation of election tasks to improve the applicability of the internet in elections.
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New Resources
VOTER REGISTRATION
Bringing Elections into the 21st Century: Voter Registration Modernization (PDF)
Pew Center on the States (August 2009)
Partisan Rivals Unite to Modernize Voter Registration System
Committee to Modernize Voter Registration (August 2009)
TECHNOLOGY ISSUES
The Research Database on the U.S. Voting System and Voting Technology
American Association for the Advancement of Science (August 2009)
EARLY AND ABSENTEE VOTING
It's in the Mail: Surveying UOCAVA Voters and Barriers to Overseas Voting (PDF)
Dr. Claire M. Smith
Overseas Vote Foundation (August 2009)
Election Enhancements for Ohio (PDF)
Office of the Ohio Secretary of State (August 2009)
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Featured Resources
This research report reviews the success of policy initiatives to reach overseas voters.
Ned Foley’s post on Election Law @ Moritz delves into the issue of uncounted ballots. This category includes absentee ballots either wrongly rejected or arriving late (usually from overseas) and provisional ballots that haven’t yet been evaluated.
The Ohio Secretary of State conducted this legislative analysis of House Bill 260, the election enhancements bill introduced by State Representatives Dan Stewart and Tracy Heard.
This paper explores whether voters who used specific types of machines in the 2008 election encountered more problems than other voters, and whether voter confidence varied by the type of system used.
This paper examines how overall voter confidence has changed since the 2000 presidential elections. The decisions at the state level regarding voting systems have been very intensely politicized, which have affected the attitude of voters towards individual technologies.
Research Projects
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.
FairVote develops and promotes practical strategies to improve elections at the local, state and national levels.
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.
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
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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