"Are U.S. Elections Getting Better or Worse?
Is the Help America Vote Act Working?"

Papers presented at the Conference:

What's Changed, What Hasn't and Why: Election Reform in 2006
Doug Chapin, Director, Electionline.org

Voter Registration Systems
Eric Fischer, Senior Specialist, Congressional Research Service

Toward a New Procedural Paradigm
Curtis Gans, Director, Center for the Study of the American Electorate, American University

Are HAVA's Provisional Ballots Working?
Wendy Weiser, Deputy Director, Democracy Program, Brennan Center, New York University School of Law

Assessing the Rate of Return on a Federal Investment in Voter Education and Pollworker Training
Tracy Warren, Executive Director, Pollworker Institute

Voting Technology: The Way Forward
Dan Tokaji, Assistant Professor, Moritz College of Law, Ohio State University

Summary of Public Comment on the 2005 Voluntary Voting System Guidelines: A Center for Correct, Useable, Reliable and Transparent Elections (ACCURATE)
Avi Rubin, Professor of Computer Science, Johns Hopkins University

Comments: "Are U.S. Elections Getting Better or Worse? Is HAVA Working?"
Paul DeGregorio, Chairman, U.S. Election Assistance Commission

The EAC is Beginning to Fill the Institutional Void. But Changes in HAVA May Be Needed.
Roy Saltman, author of The History and Politics of Voting Technology

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