2006 Election Administration and Voting Survey (PDF)
Election reform scholars nationwide are continually seeking new sources of data that can be used to explore various research questions, and the release of the Election Assistance Commission’s 2006 Election Administration and Voting Survey is likely to prove useful to many. The report examines a range of topics, including overall turnout; provisional balloting; voting machines; and poll workers and polling places.
Read the report here.
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Richard Celeste, Dick Thornburgh, and Herbert Lin, editors, Committee on a Framework for Understanding Electronic Voting, National Research Council of the National Academies
This report frames the current debate over electronic voting by identifying the questions most in need of answering.
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Collaborative Audit Committee, Cuyahoga County, Ohio and the Center for Election Integrity
Providing another look at the long-troubled administration of elections in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, this report finds problems with the handling of optical-scan ballots, with damaged voter-verified paper audit trails (VVPATs), and potential corruption of the election database.
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Alexander Trechsel (European University Institute), R. Michael Alvarez (Caltech), and Thad Hall (University of Utah), Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project
While the U.S. struggles with using electronic voting systems in its polling places, other countries have been exploring the prospect of internet voting. This study explores internet voting in Estonia, where such a system has been in place for two national elections.
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Robert Abrams and Arthur J. Fried, The Century Foundation
After presenting an overview of HAVA requirements and how these changes will affect elections in New York. the authors provide information regarding New York's current level of compliance (as of 2003) with HAVA and useful recommendations on how to implement changes.
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Zachary Markovits and Douglas Spencer
, University of California, Berkeley Survey Research Center
Relatively little quantative research has assessed how polling places actually function on Election Day; this report uses data from election observers who collected data on poll workers, voting machines, and voting regulations.
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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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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.
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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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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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