Election Reform Newsletter, Issue #46
Election Reform Newsletter
AEI | The Brookings Institution.
February 20, 2008
Election Reform Newsletter.
On Topic.New Resources.Events. Forward to a Colleague.
On Topic: Election Administration
The policies that govern the conduct of elections may be made largely at the state and national levels, but they are primarily implemented by local election officials. A new study by the Congressional Research Service examines the demographics and attitudes of these administrators, while electionline.org delivers a report on the Washington, DC primary from the perspective of a poll worker.
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»  REPORT: "Election Reform and Local Election Officials: Results of Two National Surveys" (PDF), Eric A. Fischer and Kevin J. Coleman, Congressional Research Service (February 2008)
»  REPORT: "A Ballot-Less Nightmare in the District" (PDF), Dan Seligson, electionline.org (February 2008)
 
 
 
 
Fifteen months and three rounds of testing later, the U.S. Government Accountability Office has issued its final report on the high undervote rate in the 2006 election in Florida’s 13th Congressional District.  After a thorough examination of the machines’ software, the investigators were unable to uncover evidence of tampering, hacking, or a glitch that could have caused the abnormal number of undervotes in that election.
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The National Voter Registration Act (NVRA) has provided millions of Americans with increased opportunities to register to vote since its enactment in 1993, but researchers from Project Vote and Demos conclude that significant improvements can still be made in the law’s implementation. Following up on a series of state-by-state case studies, this new report highlights the need to improve reporting requirements and enforcement.
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New Resources
TECHNOLOGY ISSUES
Ballot Formats, Touchscreens, and Undervotes: A Study of the 2006 Midterm Elections in Florida (PDF)
Laurin Frisina, Michael C. Herron, James Honaker, and Jeffrey B. Lewis
Election Law Journal (February 2008)
Statistical Analysis of the Post Election Audit Data, 2007 November Elections (PDF)
Voting Technology Research Center
University of Connecticut (January 2008)
VOTER REGISTRATION
Investigating Voting Rights in Colorado: An Assessment of Compliance with the National Voter Registration Act in Public Assistance Agencies (PDF)
Jody Herman and Douglas R. Hess
Project Vote (January 2008)
ELECTION ADMINISTRATION
Older Voters: Opportunities and Challenges in the 2008 Elections
U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging (January 2008)
Administering the March 4 Primary in Ohio
Edward B. Foley
Election Law @ Moritz (February 2008)
MORE ON ELECTION REFORM
 
Events
Voting System Manufacturer Roundtable Discussion
U.S. Election Assistance Commission
February 29, 2008
Washington, DC
 
 
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Featured Resources
Election Day Voter Registration in Massachusetts (PDF) | MARCH 2008
R. Michael Alvarez (Caltech) and Jonathan Nagler (New York University), Dēmos
This analysis explores the potential turnout-boosting effects of Election Day Registration (EDR) in Massachusetts.
Residual Votes Attributable to Technology (PDF) | MAY 2005
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
A Decade of Reform: Felony Disenfranchisement Policy in the United States (PDF) | OCTOBER 2006
Ryan S. King, The Sentencing Project
This report provides a state-by-state analysis of laws governing voting by current and former felons with a focus on changes that have been made in the past ten years.
2006 Election Administration and Voting Survey (PDF) | DECEMBER 2007
U.S. Election Assistance Commission
This report summarizes data collected nationwide on a range of topics, including overall voter turnout; provisional balloting; voting machines; and poll workers and polling places.
Free and Fair (blog of Edward Foley)
Foley's blog explores a wide range of election reform issues from a legal perspective.
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Research Projects
Electionline.org
Electionline.org
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.
Election Administration Research Center (EARC), UC Berkeley
Election Administration Research Center (EARC), UC Berkeley
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.
Election Law @ Moritz
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.
Early Voting Information Center
Reed College
Directed by early voting scholar Paul Gronke and housed at Reed College, the Early Voting Information Center provides news and research on and a state-by-state overview of early voting issues.
Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project
Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project
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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