Voter Access
As the November elections approached, researchers are tackled various questions about who can go to the polls and what is available to them once they get there. New reports explore topics such as state laws on felon voting, voting technology for people with disabilities, and legal provisions for language minority voters.
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Pamela S. Karlan, Stanford Law School
Karlan examines the causes and consequences of the apparent turn of public opinion against felon disenfranchisement laws and its implications for future litigation
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AEI-Brookings Election Reform Project
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AEI-Brookings Election Reform Project
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Alec Ewald (Union College), Columbia Human Rights Law Review
Ewald’s essay seeks to refute the argument that convicts should be disenfranchised because they might otherwise use their votes to weaken criminal justice laws.
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Lawrence Norden, et. al., Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law
This report explores a wide range of issues regarding voting technology by laying out sets of key principles to maximize security, accessibility, and usability while considering cost, and then evaluating available systems based on these criteria.
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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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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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Voter Access
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Who Gets to Vote and How? Issues in Voter Access
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March 26, 2009
On March 26, the Committee on House Administration held a hearing to examine lessons to be learned from the 2008 election.
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