2005–2006
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| Holding Form: Voter Registration 2006
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electionline.org,
7/1/2006
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For the past six years, the only constant in election reform has
been change – from new rules at polling places and updated
voter databases to new machines and ballot-counting procedures.
However, there is one area that appears relatively untouched —
voter registration.
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Link to Issue Brief (PDF)
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| The Promise and Problems of Provisional Voting
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George Washington Law Review,
4/12/2006
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The 2004 presidential election demonstrated the HAVA system of provisional voting is seriously underdeveloped, in large part because of ambiguities and gaps in HAVA itself.
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Link to Paper
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| The Machinery of Democracy: Protecting Elections in an Electronic World
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Brennan Center for Justice,
4/1/2006
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A summary of the nation’s first systematic analysis of security
vulnerabilities in the three most commonly purchased electronic voting systems.
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Link to Report (PDF)
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| Making the List: Database Matching and Verification Processes for Voter Registration
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Brennan Center for Justice,
3/24/2006
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The first comprehensive summary of critically important new voter registration
procedures effective in most states at the beginning of 2006.
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Link to Report (PDF)
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| Election Day Voter Registration: Simplifying the Voting Process and Increasing Voter Turnout in New York City
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Citizens Union Foundation,
11/7/2005
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If New York voters were allowed to register and vote on the same day, they would likely turn out in higher numbers to vote at the polls on Election Day.
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Link to Report (PDF)
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| Ten Years Later: A Promise Unfulfilled
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ACORN,
Demos,
10/12/2005
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Ten years after NVRA -- the "motor voter" bill -- was adopted, most states have failed to adequately implement requirements that public assistance agencies offer clients voter registration applications.
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Link to Report (PDF)
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| Election Day Survey
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Election Assistance Commission,
9/27/2005
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The EAC, the federal body established to give states guidelines and advice on election reform, has released its eagerly anticipated Election Day survey. After surveying elections officials from across the country, the investigators present a massive amount of data regarding such issues as voter registration, provisional ballots, voting machines, poll workers and vote counting.
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Link to Report
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| Response to the Report of the National Commission on Election Reform
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Brennan Center for Justice,
9/19/2005
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This document, responding to the report of the Baker-Carter Commission, will surely become the authoritative statement on the flaws of that report, and on the damaging potential impacts of its misguided voter ID requirement in particular.
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Link to Brief (PDF)
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| League Wants Elections To Work For the Voter
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Sara Conrath,
League of Women Voters,
8/4/2005
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The League of Women Voters today issued a new report – Next Steps on Election Reform – that explores issues central to reforming our election system and implementing the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (HAVA).
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Link to Report
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| Report to the House of Delegates Election Administration
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American Bar Association,
8/1/2005
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The ABA makes a number of recommendations for election reform and provides model legislation for handling provisional ballots in this report. Among the notable positions are the ones against stricter voter identification rules and in favor of partial counting of provisional ballots cast in the wrong polling site and expanded early and absentee voting. The group also calls for more regulation of third party voter registration activities.
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Link to Report
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| A Survey of Conditions at the polls in New York City
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Neal Rosenstein,
Joel Kelsey,
New York Public Interest Research Group,
6/21/2005
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The presidential election in New York City was as badly run as any in recent years, and new election reform laws may have exacerbated the problems.
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Link to Report (PDF)
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| ELECTION 2004: Review and Recommendations by The Nation's Elections Administrators
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National Task Force on Election Reform,
6/7/2005
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In this report by the Election Center, a group of elections administrators from across the country provide recommendations from the unique vantage point of being the people who actually have to make our elections work day in and day out.
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Link to Report (PDF)
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| Residual Vote in the 2004 Election
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Charles Stewart III,
CalTech/MIT Voting Technology Project,
2/1/2005
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Taking the American electoral system as a whole, the emerging evidence is that the election of 2004 was run much better than the election of 2000. Seventeen million more people voted in 2004 than voted in 2000, a 14% increase in the size of the presidential electorate. Some of this increased
turnout --- perhaps over a million new voters --- can be attributed to new equipment and changes in administrative practices.
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Link to Paper (PDF)
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| Analysis and Report of Overvotes and Undervotes for the 2004 General Election
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Various Authors,
Florida Department of State Division of Elections,
1/31/2005
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Link to Report (PDF)
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