Election Administration: More Than Machines
SEPTEMBER 5, 2007
Election Administration: More Than Machines
While paper trails may have been the election administration issue getting the most attention this summer, researchers continued to examine other equally important components of the process, including post-election audits and the experiences of poll workers and voters on Election Day.
Featured Resources
This Century Foundation study explores various proposals to increase voter turnout, including Election Day registration, making Election Day a national holiday, and provisional ballot reform.
This report examines issues of voter participation following Hurricane Katrina and its unique challenges for election administrators.
The House of Representatives recently concluded that machine malfunction was not likely the cause of the high undervote rate in the 2006 election in Florida's 13th District. In this report, Ted Selker reaches a similar conclusion, laying out evidence that bad ballot design was the likely culprit.
This report from electionline.org examines and assesses the efforts of various groups of poll watchers, from researchers to partisans.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
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The Brookings Institution
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