Election Reform Newsletter, Issue #39
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On Topic: Election Administration |
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Poll Workers: The People of Election Day |
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Nearly two million Americans serve as poll workers each election, and administrators across the country face 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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| Would More Testing Matter in FL-13? |
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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.
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| Asking Other Questions About Fraud |
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While the Supreme Court prepares to hear a case on voter ID laws--which are supported by some as a way to increase the integrity of the election process--researchers are also exploring whether certain policies create increased opportunities to commit fraud. A new analysis from Demos examines Election Day Registration (EDR) through that lens, concluding that states with EDR do not have more reported allegations of fraud.
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Voter ID Laws: Preventing Fraud or Suppressing the Vote?
American Constitution Society for Law and Policy
October 23, 2007
Washington, DC |
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Make Voting Work Briefing
The Pew Charitable Trusts
October 25, 2007
Washington, DC |
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About The Election
Reform Project |
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The AEI-Brookings Election Reform Project aims to synthesize election-related research, link the research and policy communities, track and assist the implemen-
tation of the Help America Vote Act (HAVA) and encourage improvements in HAVA and in election conduct and administration. |
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The Election Reform Newsletter is a periodic e-mail publication from
AEI-Brookings Election Reform Project http://www.electionreformproject.org
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AEI-Brookings Election Reform Project
1775 Massachusetts Avenue, NW | Washington, DC 20036 |
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Tova Andrea Wang, The Century Foundation
in advance of the 2004 general election, Wang examines a number of election reform issues, with particular emphasis on registration procedures, provisional balloting, and voting technology.
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Walter R. Mebane, Jr. (Cornell University) and David L. Dill (Stanford University)
After an in-depth statistical analysis of data from Sarasota County, Mebane and Dill lay out a number of patterns occuring among the over 18,000 undervotes, but conclude that a complete explanation based on voter, machine, or ballot characteristics cannot be reached without further investigation.
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R. Michael Alvarez (Caltech), Thad E. Hall (University of Utah), and Morgan Llewellyn (Caltech), Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project
Alvarez, Hall, and Llewellyn's survey examines public preferences for election administration-whether elections should be run by partisan or nonpartisan officials, whether the officials should be elected or appointed, and whether elections should be administered by a single individual or commission.
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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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U.S. Election Assistance Commission
Recognizing the increasing use of the internet by voters to obtain information about all aspect of the elections process, this study examines web sites aimed at providing information about where and when to vote, how to request an absentee ballot, and a range of other information.
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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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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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