Letter Report on Electronic Voting
Drawing on testimony from federal, state, and local officials, this report assesses the readiness of electronic voting systems in the November 2006 elections. Election officials express concern about a number of areas, including the implementation of HAVA and state legislative requirements.

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Featured Resources
In March of 2007, the Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project held a workshop designed to bring researchers and industry representatives together in an effort to identify key questions in voting technology.
In this report, researchers from the Brennan Center and the Samuelson Clinic survey current literature on post-election audits and make recommendations for future audit policy.
This report examines partnerships to improve election administration in Georgia, Ohio, Connecticut, Idaho, and Maryland, and explores prospects for future cooperation in other areas of the country.
To what extent should the software code for electronic voting machines be available to the public? Hall explores the tradeoffs between expediency and transparency and concludes that giving the code to qualified individuals is the optimal solution.
Research Projects
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.
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
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.
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.
The American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
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The Brookings Institution
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