Make Voting Work: Request for Proposals--
New Diagnostics and New Solutions
In partnership with the Pew Charitable Trusts’ Make Voting Work initiative and the JEHT Foundation, the Pew Center on the States has issued a Request for Proposals. The first in a series, this RFP will allocate up to $2 million and will focus on diagnosing how well U.S. elections are run and planning pilot projects testing solutions to be conducted in 2007 and 2008.

»  For general information on the RFP, go here.
»  To read the RFP, go here (PDF).
»  For frequently asked questions about the RFP, go here (PDF).
Featured Resources
A Study of Vote Verification Technologies for the Maryland State Board of Elections: Executive Summary (PDF) | FEBRUARY 2006
Maryland Institute of Policy Analysis and Research and the Center for American Politics and Citizenship, University of Maryland
This Executive Summary provides the results of two studies commissioned by the Maryland State Board of Elections to investigate the technical and usability issues of various voting products with verification features.
Draft: Best Practices for Effective Designs in Election Administration | JUNE 2007
U.S. Election Assistance Commission
Undertaken in collaboration with Design for Democracy, this report from the EAC seeks to identify best practices in the areas of ballot design, polling place signage, and other voter information materials.
The Impact of Voting Systems on Residual Votes, Incomplete Ballots, and Other Measures of Voting Behavior (PDF) | 2005
Michael W. Traugott (University of Michigan) et. al.
The authors find that the adoption of new voting technology, especially the elimination of punch cards and lever machines, in Florida between the 2000 and 2004 elections helped reduce the residual vote rate
Vote Fraud in the Eye of the Beholder: The Role of Public Opinion in the Challenge to Voter Identification Requirements | FEBRUARY 2008
Stephen Ansolabehere (MIT) and Nathaniel Persily (Columbia Law School), Columbia Law School Public Law and Legal Theory Working Paper Group
Voter fears of fraud have been offered as a justification for the strict ID requirements enacted in Indiana and elsewhere, but as the authors of this article find, citizens' perceptions of fraud have no relationship to whether or not they turn out to vote.
Election Reform Newsletter, Issue #52 | MAY 21, 2008
AEI-Brookings Election Reform Project
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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.
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.
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