Election Reform Newsletter, Issue #37
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On Topic: Technology Issues |
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Back to the Future: Considering New Voting Systems |
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With paper trail legislation on the calendar for consideration in Congress this week, voting system issues remain in the spotlight. The EAC has released a draft of new voting machine guidelines, while the Election Reform Project's Tim Ryan has weighed in on the importance of considering new technologies when developing policy in the field.
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| Early Voting: Not Just the Primary Calendar |
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The front-loaded presidential primary calendar isn't the only "early voting" issue that remains in focus for members of the election reform community. Researchers at the Early Voting Information Center have authored two new papers on convenience voting; one examines its effects on turnout, while the other explores the factors that determine whether or not an individual will vote early.
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| Can Complaints Prompt Change? |
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A new report on the 2006 election from the University of Pennsylvania may prove useful as states prepare for this November's elections, as well as next year's presidential primaries. The highlights of the analysis, which relies on data from a national hotline, include a dramatic increase in the number of voting machine complaints since 2004 and that difficulties with registration remain a major issue for voters.
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Check here for information on future election reform events. |
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About The Election
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The AEI-Brookings Election Reform Project aims to synthesize election-related research, link the research and policy communities, track and assist the implemen-
tation of the Help America Vote Act (HAVA) and encourage improvements in HAVA and in election conduct and administration. |
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The Election Reform Newsletter is a periodic e-mail publication from
AEI-Brookings Election Reform Project http://www.electionreformproject.org
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AEI-Brookings Election Reform Project
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R. Michael Alvarez (Caltech), Thad E. Hall (University of Utah), and Morgan Llewellyn (Caltech), Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project
Alvarez, Hall, and Llewellyn's survey examines public preferences for election administration-whether elections should be run by partisan or nonpartisan officials, whether the officials should be elected or appointed, and whether elections should be administered by a single individual or commission.
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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.
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R. Michael Alvarez (Caltech) and Jonathan Nagler (New York University) , Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review
The authors examine the effects of past reforms such as vote by mail and election-day registration as well as the results of the year 2000 primary election in Arizona and determine that the implementation of Internet voting would likely be detrimental to minority representation.
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Dean C. Logan, Records, Elections, and Licensing Services Division, King County Department of Executive Services
Dean C. Logan, director of elections in King County, Washington, explores the benefits of shifting to an all vote-by-mail system and suggests a practical timeline to implement the change.
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R. Michael Alvarez (Caltech), Delia Bailey (Washington University in St. Louis), and Jonathan Katz (Caltech), Caltech-MIT Voting Technology Project
In this paper, the authors document the effect of voter identification requirements in the 2000-2006 elections, examining both aggregate and individual-level data.
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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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