A Blueprint for Transforming the Boston Elections Department (PDF)
After nearly fifteen percent of precincts in Boston ran out of ballots last November, Mayor Thomas Menino called for a complete review of the Elections Department. A new report on that study by Harvard’s David King lays out a series of recommendations for improving election administration there.
Read the report here (PDF).
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AEI-Brookings Election Reform Project
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IFES and UNDP
The survey aims to help election management agencies throughout the world plan their budgets by identifying cost-management practices and measures of cross-country comparisons.
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R. Michael Alvarez (Caltech), Lonna Rae Atkeson (University of New Mexico), and Thad Hall (University of Utah)
Taking a wide angle look at election administration in New Mexico, this report utilizes researcher observations on election day, as well as survey data from voters and pollworkers.
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Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Drawn from a symposium held at Harvard, this paper suggests best practices for the implementation of new voting technology, strongly endorses voter-verified paper trails, and calls for increased poll worker training.
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AEI-Brookings Election Reform Project
On Wednesday, February 8, 2006, Senator Barack Obama delivered a keynote address to inaugurate the AEI-Brookings Election Reform Project. Senator Obama's address was followed by a discussion of the past and future of election reform among experts in election law, technology, and administration.
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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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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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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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