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The Center for Democracy and Election Management at the American University School of Public Affairs recently released a report of the 50 states election proceedures.The report; “The State of Elections in the 50 States: Evaluating the Process Where…
Citizens for Election Integrity released a report on the 2008 post-election audit and recount.The report, “Eyes on the Vote Count,” describes the manual counting process in the 2008 Minnesota post-election audit and US Senate recount based on the…
The Brennan Center for Justice has just issued “Expanding Democracy: Voter Registration Around the World”, which analyzes voter registration systems’ efficiencies and inefficiencies in countries around the world.The report compared the United States system of voter registration, which…
The 2008 election may be over, but the research and analysis of it is just beginning.In just the past month, the Nonprofit Voter Engagement Network (NVEN), Early Voting Information Center (EVIC) and the Pew Research…
A May 6 report by the U.S. PIRG Education Fund in conjunction with IL PIRG Education Fund, studying ineffective voter-registration systems estimates that goverments could save millions of taxpayer dollars by moderizing voter registration. The
Education's less-than-certain windfall
New state tests coming to schools
Rhetoric trumps realism in campaigns for governor
Brennan Center Democracy Program
Citizen Advocacy Center Government Monitoring
George Mason University United States Elections Project