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OCTOBER 2007 Poll Workers: The People of Elections |
Nearly two million Americans serve as poll workers each election, and administrators across the country face a range of challenges in recruiting, training, and retaining them. Both electionline.org and the Committee on House Administration have examined the issue, and the EAC has released best practices for use by local officials.
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Matthew Waring and David Waterman, AEI-Brookings Election Reform Project
Estimates put the number of poll workers needed for the 2008 election at nearly two million. This analysis explores the ways that a variety of jurisdictions address the challenges of recruiting, training, and retaining these workers.
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Edward B. Foley, Election Law @ Moritz
This essay lays out an argument for the use of "Election Contest Law Audits" as a mechanism for easing the resolution of disputes over the outcome of elections.
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Daniel Tokaji, Election Law @ Moritz
In this analysis piece, Dan Tokaji argues that Congress--whose primary election reform-related attention is focused on the paper trail debate--should instead be focusing on issues like ID requirements and statewide voter registration databases.
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AEI-Brookings Election Reform Project
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Jessica Leval, AEI-Brookings Election Reform Project
In this analysis, the Election Reform Project's Jessica Leval describes administrative problems--both ones encountered as a individual voter, and ones that affected the city as a whole--in the recent District of Columbia primary.
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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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