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Election Reform Information
Network |
| Excellent
Web site posted by interested citizen Dave Allen with particularly
useful links
to other election reform sites and
summary of recent editorials, opinion articles, and surveys
on election reform |
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Election Reform Information
Project |
| Administered
by the University of Richmond
and supported by a grant from The
Pew Charitable Trusts, provides non-partisan clearinghouse
for election reform news and analysis. Also publishes state-by-state
comparisons of statutory and regulatory provisions on topics
such as voter registration, absentee voting, early voting, provisional
ballots, recounts and other election subjects and published
Election Reform Briefing: Statewide Voter Registration Databases,
March 2002 joint report with The Constitution Project |
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Federal Election
Reform Network |
| Organized
by The Miller Center
of Public Affairs of the University
of Virginia and The Century
Foundation with honorary co-chairs former Presidents Gerald
Ford and Jimmy Carter, published
July 2001 report evaluating issues relating to voting technologies
used in US provoked by controversy surrounding 2000 Presidential
election, including a brief history and characteristics of different
voting methods, the design of ballots, kinds and sources of
voter error, vote counting, and standards. |
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National
Association of Secretaries of State
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| Publishes
current summary of State
Election Reform Information and also published
in August 2001
State-by-State Election Reform Best Practices Report
. Also established a National Election Standards Task Force
to research various election reform issues, which adopted July
2001 resolution supporting federal funding for assisting
states with election personnel training and voting technology
but opposing any mandatory federal standards imposed on states
and calling for appropriate levels of federal funding accompanying
any mandates that may be imposed. |
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National
Association of State Election Directors
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Comprised of
the top-ranking state election official of each state and
territory, publishes online link
to each state's election site. Also published
Federal Election
Recommendations (August 15, 2001) supporting federal
grants to states to improve election administration and voting
technology, including the establishment of statewide voter
registration databases and the development of minimum standards
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| National
Association of County Recorders, Election Officials and Clerks |
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Professional organization
of elected and appointed county administrative officials,
largest affiliate of the National Association of County Officers
(NACO), publishes online newsletter
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Federal
Election Commission
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Publishes extensive
data and reports, including Report
on Draft Voting Standards (December 2001) proposing
voting system minimum functional requirements, performance
characteristics, documentation requirements, and test evaluation
criteria
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| Century
Foundation |
| Chaired
by former New Jersey State Treasurer Richard C. Leone, a national
nonpartisan research foundation that sponsors evaluations and
analysis of economic, political, and social institutions and
issues., co-sponsor with the The
Miller Center of Public Affairs of the University
of Virginia of Election
Reform Information Project of National Commission
on Federal Election Reform (see above). Also commissioned studies
to be published spring 2002 of gubernatorial races in New Jersey
(drafted by Ingrid Reed of Eagleton Institute of Politics)
and Virginia, and mayoral races in New York City and Los Angeles
assessing progress in improving electoral system following controversy
over voting systems resulting in past presidential contest |
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Common
Cause
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National civic
education and activist nonprofit organization. Published in
November 2001 Not
Making the Grade: An Election Reform Report Card,
a state-by-state review and grade ranking of progress in election
reform since November 2000 election, with New
Jersey summary and grade of 'B', with primary criticism
lack of uniform statewide voter registration database
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The
Constitution Project's Election Reform Initiative
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| A bipartisan
nonprofit organization supporting reforms relating to voter
registration, access and recording based at Georgetown University
Law Center. Sponsored April 2001 Forum on Election Reform, bringing
together over sixty voter rights advocates, election officials
and policy experts for an open dialogue on election system and
published papers on
Building Consensus for Election Reform and Recommendations
for Congressional Action. Also posts updates
on election reform legislation. |
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Brookings
Institution-Election Reform |
| National
progressive policy think tank provides useful summaries of recent
studies and reports with links to sources, including Brookings's
own policy brief published June 2001,
An Agenda for Election Reform. |
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United States General Accounting
Office |
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Published four
reports on election issues October 15, 2001:
1. Elections: Perspectives on Activities and Challenges Across
the Nation; (gao-02-3 ); 2. Elections: A Framework
for Evaluating Reform Proposals (gao-02-90); 3. Elections:
Status and Use of Federal Voting System Standards. (gao-02-52);
and 4. Elections: Statistical Analysis of Factors That
Affected Uncounted Votes in the 2000 Presidential Election
(gao-02-122).
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Stateline.org
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| Web site
monitoring state issues operated by the Pew Center on the States,
administered by the University of Richmond and funded by the
Pew Charitable Trusts, includes excellent election
reform news summaries and links
to election reform papers and studies in various states. |
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National Council of State Legislatures |
| Extensive
state election data and information published by its
Elections Reform Task Force, particularly Voting
in America: Final Report of the Elections Reforms Task Force
(July 2001) with state-by-state comparisons and data.
Key recommendations include that states should: 1) collect and
archive election data, including error rates; 2) develop a statewide,
electronic registration database; 3) improve communication between
polling places and central election offices; and 4) allow no-excuse,
absentee voting and early voting as additional voting options. |
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Center
for Voting and Democracy
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Nonprofit organization
advocating voting system reforms to decrease impact
of money in elections, promote greater participation in elections
and governance and provide more inclusive representation of
women and racial and ethnic minorities. Publishes Online
Library with links to studies on voter turnout,
how voting systems affect participation, representation and
governance.
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California Internet
Voting Task Force Report
January 18, 2000 |
| Convened
by Secretary of State Bill Jones to study the feasibility of
using the Internet to conduct California elections, comprised
of public and private experts in data security, elections and
voter participation who concluded that current technological
threats to the security, integrity and secrecy of Internet ballots
are 'significant', with potential problems ranging from a denial
of service to the submission of electronically altered ballots.
Although recognizing that Internet voting would allow increased
access for millions of potential voters not regularly participating
in elections, recommended continued limited experiments with
new systems at existing polling places to test security prior
to implementing any remote Internet voting in official elections.
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CalTech/MIT Voting Technology
Project |
| Collaborative
project established December 2000 between California
Institute of Technology and Massachusetts
Institute of Technology to develop an easy-to-use, reliable,
affordable and secure United States voting machine to prevent
a recurrence of the problems of the 2000 presidential election.
Published July 2001 Report, Voting
-What Is, What Could Be estimating that 4 to 6 million
votes were lost in 2000 presidential election due to ballot,
equipment or registration problems at the polling place,
with recommendations including use of optical scanning systems
to replace punch card, mechanical lever and older electronic
systems; development of unified statewide registration
databases; use of early voting rather than absentee voting on
demand; delay in implementing Internet voting until suitable
criteria for security are adopted; and expanded federal funding
and research of voting system technology. |
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SecurePoll.com |
| Publishes
international and US news
and industry updates including white papers and reports
submitted by scientists, researchers, election officials, and
election system vendors and posts links
to public and private sources of election information |
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Demos |
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Nonprofit organization with focus on election reform initiatives
expanding voter registration and participation, published papers
include Election
Day Registration and An
Overdue Reform: The Need for Statewide Computerized Voter Registration
Systems. |
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Lorrie Faith Cranor, Ph.D.,
Principal Technical Staff
Member-AT&T Labs, Florham Park, NJ
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| Web site
of one of leading researchers on electronic
voting and online security, includes publications, press
articles and links to electronic voting and security topics. |
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Rebecca Mercuri, Ph.D. |
| Web site
maintained by an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at
Bryn Mawr College who is a leading critic of electronic voting,
includes papers, articles and links. |
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