Further Testing Could Provide Increased but Not Absolute Assurance That Voting Systems Did Not Cause Undervotes in Florida's 13th Cong. District (PDF)
Nearly a year has passed, and GAO experts continue to investigate the large number of undervotes cast in last November’s election in Florida’s 13th Congressional District. A new report concludes that while some completed tests provide assurance that certain components of the machines used functioned correctly, further examination is unlikely to prove with absolute certainty the system was not at fault.
Read the report here (PDF).
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Jamie Hester, AEI-Brookings Election Reform Project
In this piece, Election Reform Project intern Jamie Hester examines voting machine irregularities in New Jersey's presidential primary and calls for more transparency from systems manufacturers for investigating similar incidents in the future.
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Representative Rush Holt (D-NJ), National Academy of Engineering of the National Academies
This piece, drawn from a talk given by Representative Holt, discusses the importance of voter confidence in voting systems and offers a set of policy prescriptions for ensuring that trust.
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David Kimball (University of Missouri, St. Louis) and Martha Kropf (University of North Carolina, Charlotte), AEI-Brookings Election Reform Project
Drawing on their extensive research on ballot design, David Kimball and Martha Kropf present a set of "dos and don'ts" for designing good ballots.
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U.S. House Committee on House Administration
On September 28, 2006, the House Committee on House Administration held a hearing to explore whether paper ballots and/or audit trails can increase the security, accuracy, and verification capabilities of the nation’s elections.
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Lawrence Norden (NYU), Aaron Burnstein (UC Berkeley), Joseph Lorenzo Hall (UC Berkeley), and Margaret Chen (NYU), Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law and the Samuelson Law, Technology, and Public Policy Clinic at UC Berkeley School of Law
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.
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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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