Further Testing Could Provide Increased but Not Absolute Assurance That Voting Systems Did Not Cause Undervotes in Florida's 13th Cong. District (PDF)
Nearly a year has passed, and GAO experts continue to investigate the large number of undervotes cast in last November’s election in Florida’s 13th Congressional District. A new report concludes that while some completed tests provide assurance that certain components of the machines used functioned correctly, further examination is unlikely to prove with absolute certainty the system was not at fault.
Read the report here (PDF).
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Electronic Frontier Foundation
Submitted as part of an initiative at the National Research Council of the National Academies, this paper argues that voter-verified paper audit trails (VVPATs) can not be made accessible for individuals with disabilities.
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electionline.org
What can voters expect when they go to the polls on November 7? A new report from electionline.org looks at issues voters may encounter in the areas of voting technology, voter identification requirements, voter registration databases, and third-party voter registration.
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Carter-Baker Commission on Federal Election Reform, Center for Democracy and Election Management (American University)
The final report of the Commission, chaired by former President Jimmy Carter and former Secretary of State James Baker III, urges reforms in voter identification and registration, provisional balloting, voter access, election administration, and more.
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Stephen Ansolabehere (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and Charles Stewart III (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), The Journal of Politics
Ansolabehere and Stewart III find that in presidential races the residual vote rate increases as one moves from paper ballots to optically scanned ballots, mechanical lever machines, DRE’s, and punch cards. Lever machines and punch cards perform poorly in gubernatorial and senatorial races
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Jonathan A. Goler (MIT), Edwin J. Selker (MIT), and Lorin F. Wilde (MIT), Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project
The authors analyze differences in voting performance between reading disabled and non-reading disabled voters using full-faced and page-by-page systems in order to develop new interfaces that reduce the errors of disabled and non-disabled voters alike.
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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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