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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Alexander Trechsel (European University Institute), R. Michael Alvarez (Caltech), and Thad Hall (University of Utah), Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project
While the U.S. struggles with using electronic voting systems in its polling places, other countries have been exploring the prospect of internet voting. This study explores internet voting in Estonia, where such a system has been in place for two national elections.
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Richard Celeste, Dick Thornburgh, and Herbert Lin, editors, Committee on a Framework for Understanding Electronic Voting, National Research Council of the National Academies
This report frames the current debate over electronic voting by identifying the questions most in need of answering.
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David Dill and Will Doherty, Verified Voting
This report details arguments about the shortcomings of electronic voting machines, focusing on anecdotal information from the 2004 election.
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Nathan Cemenska, Election Law @ Moritz
As dictated by state law, jurisdictions nationwide vary greatly in the structure of their election governing bodies. This analysis argues, that for many functions, these bodies should be bipartisan.
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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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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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Part of the Institute for Governmental Studies at the University of California at Berkeley, the Election Administration Research Center (EARC) aims to improve the administration of elections.
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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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