The Effect of Voter Identification Laws on Turnout (PDF)
Comments by the head of the Department of Justice’s Voting Rights Section are not the only recent news-making contribution to the debate over voter identification laws. In a new report, researchers from the Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project examine the issue in depth and conclude that while there is no evidence that ID requirements depress turnout at the aggregate level, they do have a negative effect for certain individual voters.

Read the report (PDF) here.
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Making Every Vote Count: A Colloquium on Election Reform Legislation (PDF) | APRIL 6, 2006
Princeton University, New York University School of Law, and the University of Pennsylvania
On April 6 and 7, 2006, scholars and policymakers met in Princeton, New Jersey, to discuss the implementation of the Help America Vote Act, as well as the Voting Rights Act and the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act.
Viewpoint: Justices Seek Pragmatic Approach to ID Laws | JANUARY 11, 2008
Matthew Weil and Timothy J. Ryan, AEI-Brookings Election Reform Project
Building Confidence in U.S. Elections: Report of the Commission on Federal Election Reform (PDF) | SEPTEMBER 2005
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.
Voter Purges (PDF) | SEPTEMBER 2008
Myrna Perez, Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law
This report examines voter purges (the removal of individuals from the voter rolls), summarizing types of purges and the problems associated with them and making policy recommendations for the reform of their use.
Securing the Vote: An Analysis of Election Fraud (PDF) | 2003
Lori Minnite (Barnard College) and David Callahan (Dēmos), Dēmos
Minnite and Callahan find minimal incidence of election fraud in the United States and conclude that efforts to expand voter registration are compatible with fraud prevention
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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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