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).
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Paul S. Herrnson (University of Maryland) et al.
This study finds high usability ratings among a variety of electronic voting machine interfaces (optical scan, touch screen, buttons and dials, membrane buttons), but sees variation depending on machine characteristics and the voting tasks required
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R. Michael Alvarez (Caltech) and Erik K. Antonsson (Caltech), National Academy of Engineering of the National Academies
In this article, the authors give a brief summary of recent problems with voting technology and the difficulties of studying it. They also make recommendations about how to build "a science of elctions."
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Eddan Katz and Rebecca Bolin, Yale School of Law
This paper, part of the Committee on a Framework for Understanding Electronic Voting initiative at the National Research Council of the National Academies, lays out
criteria for evaluating new voting systems.
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Matt Bishop (University of California, Davis), Office of the California Secretary of State
This report, part of California's top-to-bottom review of its voting systems, highlights various potential vulnerabilities that exist with the machines used in the state.
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Dēmos
Demos finds that four of the five states with the highest turnout of the voting-eligible population in the 2004 presidential election all employ Election Day Registration (EDR)
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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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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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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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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.
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