Resources
Election Analysis
- Ballot Integrity and Voting By Mail: The Oregon Experience (.pdf)
Dr. Paul Gronke, Director, Early Voting Information Center - Next Steps on Election Reform
League of Women Voters of the U.S. (August 2005) - Balancing Access and Integrity: Report of The Century Foundation Workgroup on State Implementation of Election Reform
The Century Foundation (July 2005) - Democracy at Risk: The Ohio Election [2004]
Democratic National Committee Voting Rights Institute (June 2005) - Election 2004: Review & Analysis by the Nation's Election Administrators*
The Election Center, National Task Force on Election Reform (June 2005) - Solution or Problem? Provisional Ballots in 2004
Electionline.org (April 2005) - OSCE/ODIHR Election Observation Mission Final Report (.pdf)
Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (March 2005) - A Critical Review of the "Unexplained Exit Poll Discrepancy"
Rick Brady (March 2005) - A Review of the Recent Controversies Concerning the 2004 Presidential Election Exit Polls
National Research Commission on Elections & Voting (March 2005) - Beyond the Margin of Litigation: Reforming U.S. Election Administration to Avoid Electoral Meltdown
Richard L. Hasen, Loyola Law School (To Be Published in Fall 2005) - Residual Vote in the 2004 Election
Charles Stewart, III, Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project (February 2005) - Study of the 2004 Presidential Election Exit Poll Discrepancies
U.S. Count Votes (January 2005) - Preserving Democracy: What Went Wrong in Ohio
U.S. House Judiciary Committee Democratic Staff (January 2005) - 2004: A Report Card
Tova Andrea Wang, The Century Foundation (January 2005) - The Election 2004
Electionline.org (December 2004) - Iterim Report on the Alleged Irregularities in the United States Presidential Election of 2 November 2004
National Research Commission on Elections & Voting (December 2004) - Report from the Voters: A First Look at the 2004 Election Data
Common Cause (December 2004) - Continuing Failures in "Fail-safe" Voting
DEMOS: A Network for Ideas & Actions (December 2004) - Voting in 2004: A Report to the Nation on America's Voting Process
Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, Common Cause, The Century Foundation (December 2004) - OSCE Election Observation Mission Preliminary Findings Report (.pdf)
Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (November 2004) - 2004 U.S. Election: An International Perspective
Fair Election International (November 2004) - Election Reform 2004: What's Changed, What Hasn't & Why
Electionline.org (January 2004)
Election Access & Integrity
- Barred for Life: Voting Rights in Permanent Disenfranchisement States (.pdf)
The Sentencing Project (March 2005) - Solution or Problem? Provisional Ballots in 2004
Electionline.org (April 2005) - Beyond the Margin of Litigation: Reforming U.S. Election Administration to Avoid Electoral Meltdown
Richard L. Hasen, Loyola Law School (To Be Published in Fall 2005) - Preserving Democracy: What Went Wrong in Ohio
U.S. House Judiciary Committee Democratic Staff (January 2005) - 2004: A Report Card
Tova Andrea Wang, The Century Foundation (January 2005) - Iterim Report on the Alleged Irregularities in the United States Presidential Election of 2 November 2004
National Research Commission on Elections & Voting (December 2004) - Continuing Failures in "Fail-safe" Voting
DEMOS: A Network for Ideas & Actions (December 2004)
Voter Turnout & Participation
- Young Voter Turnout & the 2004 Election
Thomas E. Patterson, Harvard University (February 2005) - Turnout Exceeds Optimistic Predictions: More Than 122 Million Vote
Curtis Gans, Committee for the Study of the American Electorate (January 2005) - Shattering the Myth: An Initial Snapshot of Voter Disenfranchisement in the 2004 Elections
Lawyer's Committe on Civil Rights Under Law (December 2004) - Purged! Will Eligible Voters Be Purged From The Election Rolls?
DEMOS: A Network for Ideas and Actions (October 2004) - Making It Easier Doesn't Work: No Excuse Absentee and Early Voting; Hurt Voter Turnout; Create Other Problems (.pdf)
Curtis Gans, Committee for the Study of the American Electorate (September 2004) - Voter Registration and Turnout in the United States
Benjamin Highton (September 2004) - The Effects of An Election Day Voter Mobilization Campaign Targeting Young Voters (.pdf)
Donald P. Green, CIRCLE (September 2004) - How Postregistration Laws Affect the Turnout of Registrants
Raymond E. Wolfinger, Benjamin Highton and Megan Mullin, CIRCLE (June 2004) - ***U.S. Voter Registration & Turnout Statistics for Federal Elections***
U.S. Government Data (1972-2002)
Voting Technology
- U.S. Election Assistance Commission Draft Voluntary Voting System Guidelines (.doc)
(April 2005) - Residual Vote in the 2004 Election
Charles Stewart, III, Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project (February 2005) - Effects of Electronic Voting in Florida During the November 2004 Presidential Election (.pdf)
Michael Hout, University of California, Berkeley (March 2005) - A Framework for Understanding Electronic Voting
Douglas W. Jones, University of Iowa (December 2004) - Evaluating Voting Technologies: Florida 2004 Optical Scan Versus DRE
Jonathan Wand, Stanford University (November 2004) - The Florida 2004 Optical Voting Machine Controversy: A Causal Analysis Using Matching
Jasjeet Sekhon, Harvard University (November 2004) - A Criticism of the Caltech/MIT Voting Project's "Voting Machines and the Underestimate of the Bush Vote" (.pdf)
Peter Caithamer, University of Southern Indiana (November 2004) - Voting Machines and the Underestimate of the Bush Vote
Caltech/MIT Voting Project (November 2004) - Making Each Vote Count: A Research Agenda for Electronic Voting (.pdf)
Mark S. Frankel with Tova Jacobovits and Adrianne Kroepsch, American Association for the Advancement of Science (October 2004) - Recommendations for Ensuring Consistent and Complete Reporting of Election Data
Caltech/MIT Voting Project (October 2004) - Testimony Before U.S. EAC Technical Guilelines Development Committee
National Institute of Standards and Technology (September 2004) - Immediate Steps to Avoid Lost Votes In the 2004 Presidential Election: Recommendations for the Election Assistance Commission
Caltech/MIT Voting Project (July 2004) - Electronic Voting Offers Opportunities and Presents Challenges
U.S. General Accounting Office (July 2004) - Recommendations for Improving the Reliability of Direct Recording Electronic Systems
Brennan Center for Justice and the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights (June 2004) - Summary of Voting, Vote Capture & Vote Counting Symposium
Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government (June 2004) - Testimony from the U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC) Hearing on the Use, Security and Reliability of Electronic Voting Systems
U.S. Election Assistance Commission (May 2004) - Improving the Usability and Accessibility of Voting Systems and Products: NIST Human Factors Report Submitted to the U.S. Election Assistance Commission
National Institute for Standards and Technology (April 2004) - Securing the Vote
Electionline.org (April 2004) - Analysis of an Electronic Voting System (.pdf)
Dan Wallach, Aviel Rubin, Tadayoshi Kohno and Adam Stubblefield, Johns Hopkins University (February 2004) - California Secretary of State's Ad-Hoc Task Force on Touch Screen Voting Report (.pdf)
Office of the Secretary of State, State of California (July 2003) - Remarks from NIST Symposium on Building Trust & Reliability in Voting Systems
National Institute for Standards and Technology (December 2003) - Election Reform and Electronic Voting Systems (DREs): Analysis of Security Issues (.pdf)
Eric A. Fischer, Congressional Research Service (November 2003) - Usability Testing of Voting Systems
U.S. Federal Election Commission Report* (October 2003)
*Issue now overseen by U.S. Election Assistance Commission - Standards for Elections: Past, Present and Future
Roy Saltman, MIT (January 2002) - Voting: What Is, What Could Be
Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project (November 2001) - Status and Use of Federal Voting Equipment and Standards (.pdf)
U.S. General Accounting Office (October 2001) - Voting Technologies in the United States: Overview and Issues for Congress
Eric A. Fischer, Congressional Research Service (March 2001) - Report of the National Workshop on Internet Voting: Issues & Research Agenda
National Science Foundation (March 2001) - Report of the California Internet Voting Task Force
Office of the Secretary of State, State of California (January 2000)
Commission Background Information & Reports
- To Assure Pride & Confidence in the Electoral Process (.pdf)
National Commission on Federal Election Reform (August 2001) - Elections: Additional Data Could Help State and Local Election Officials Maintain Accurate Voter Registration Lists (.pdf)
U.S. General Accounting Office (July 2005) - Congressional Authority to Standardize National Election Procedures
U.S. General Accounting Office (February 2003) - Election Reform: An Analysis of Proposals and the Commission's Recommendations for Improving America's Voting Systems (.pdf)
U.S. Commission on Civil Rights (November 2001) - Elections: A Framework for Evaluating Reform Proposals (.pdf)
U.S. General Accounting Office (October 2001) - Elections: Perspectives on Activities and Challenges Across the Nation (.pdf)
U.S. General Accounting Office (October 2001) - Statistical Analysis of Factors that Affected Uncounted Votes in the 2000 Presidential Election (.pdf)
U.S. General Accounting Office (October 2001) - Voters with Disabilities: Access to Polling Places and Alternative Voting Methods (.pdf)
U.S. General Accounting Office (October 2001) - Voting Assistance to Military and Overseas Citizens Should Be Improved (.pdf)
U.S. General Accounting Office (September 2001) - Overseas Absentee Ballot Handling in DOD [Dept. of Defense]
U.S. Department of Defense, Office of the Inspector General (June 2001) - Electionline Briefings (2000-Present)