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APRIL 2008 Tackling Technology, One Book at a Time |
Voting technology, long the purview of heated debate among the political and advocacy communities, is the focus of two new academic, book-length studies. One, focusing on usability, was explored in a recent event hosted by the Election Reform Project, while the other highlights how the advantages of electronic voting can outweigh the drawbacks.
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AEI-Brookings Election Reform Project
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Stephen Ansolabehere (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and Charles Stewart III (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), The Journal of Politics
Ansolabehere and Stewart III find that in presidential races the residual vote rate increases as one moves from paper ballots to optically scanned ballots, mechanical lever machines, DRE’s, and punch cards. Lever machines and punch cards perform poorly in gubernatorial and senatorial races
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Michael Shamos (Carnegie Mellon University), National Academy of Engineering of the National Academies
After briefly exploring the history of the manipulation of elections in the U.S., this article discusses the inevitablity of a certain level of error and lays out a set of approaches, drawn from engineering, to examine the issue of security.
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Office of the Kentucky Attorney General
This report, part of Kentucky's recent review of its certification of voting systems, highlights a number of changes that could be made to improve the process.
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U.S. Election Assistance Commission
The U.S. Election Assistance Commission highlights key steps administrators should follow when implementing new voting systems. A more comphrensive guide will follow.
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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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University of Maryland
As part of its broader research focus on elections, campaign ethics, campaign finance, and the legislative process, the Center for American Politics and Citizenship at the University of Maryland is engaged in research projects on voting technology and ballot design specifically.
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