Last Updated: December, 2011
Below is an archive containing major election law reports issued by various agencies, institutes, watchdog groups and other groups since the 2004 presidential election. Check this page for further updates. All links will open in a new window.
2011
- December - Formal Investigation Report: Election Systems and Software Unity 3.2.0.0 (EAC)
- October - Uniformed and Overseas Citizen Absentee Voting Act Survey Observations (EAC)
- October - Voting and Registration Tables in the Election of November 2010 and related Press Release (U.S. Census Bureau)
- June - The Impact of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 on the Administration of Elections for Federal Office 2009-2010 (EAC)
2010
- May - 2010 Statutory Overview (EAC)
2010
- September - Voting in 2010: Ten Swing States (Demos & Common Cause)
2009
- April - Final Report 2008 & 2009 Ohio Election Summit and Conference (Lawrence Norden, chair of the Elections Summit, with Jessie Allen)
- April - Elections Enhancements for Ohio: A Report to the Governor and the General Assembly (Jennifer Brunner, Ohio Secretary of State)
2008
- June - March 4, 2008 Primary Election: Report from the Secretary of State to the Governor, General Assembly, and the Citizens of the State of Ohio (Jennifer Brunner, Ohio Secretary of State)
- February - A Ballot-Less Nightmare in the District (Dan Seligson, electionline.org)
- February - Election Reform and Local Election Officials: Results of Two National Surveys (CRS Report for Congress)
- January - Trust But Verify: Increasing Voter Confidence in Election Results (Tennessee Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations)
2007
- December - Project EVEREST - Evaluation and Validation of Election Related Equipment, Standards and Testing (Ohio Secretary of State)
- December - The 2006 Election Administration and Voting Survey (U.S. Election Assistance Commission)
- November - The Help America Vote Act at 5 (electionline.org)
- November -The Truth About Voter Fraud (Justin Levitt, Brennan Center for Justice)
- August- MyVote1 National Election Report: Voice of the Electorate 2006 (University of Pennsylvania Fels Institute of Government)
2006
- December - Election Crimes: An Initial Review and Recommendations for Future Study, Appendix 1, Appendix 2, Appendix 3, Appendix 4 (U.S. Election Assistance Commission)
- October - Investigator's Guide to Voter Fraud (Justin Levitt, Brennan Center for Justice)
- October - Election Preview 2006: What's Changed, What Hasn't and Why (electionline.org)
- October - Voting in 2006: Have We Solved the Problems of 2004? (The Century Foundation)
- October - Almost 55 Million, or One-Third of the Nation's Voters, Will Face New Voting Equipment in 2006 Election (Election Data Services)
- August - DRE Analysis for May 2006 Primary in Cuyahoga County, Ohio (Election Science Institute)
- June - The Machinery of Democracy: Voting System Security, Accessibility, Usability, and Cost (Brennan Center for Justice)
2005
- September - Federal Efforts to Improve Security and Reliability of Electronic Voting Systems Are Under Way, but Key Activities Need to Be Completed (U.S. Government Accountability Office)
- July - The Next Big Election Challenge: Developing Electronic Data Transaction Standards for Election Administration (IBM Center for the Business of Government)
- July - Balancing Access and Integrity (The Century Foundation)
- February - Residual Vote in the 2004 Election (Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project)
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Commentary
Provisional Ballots, Consent Decrees, and the Balance Between the Federal and State Governments
Owen Wolfe
A recent mandamus action filed by the Ohio Senate President and House Speaker Pro Tempore to require the Ohio Secretary of State to rescind directives issued in response to a consent decree issued in a federal case dealing with counting provisional ballots raises questions about the mechanics of state election law, the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, the relationship between federal and state courts, the law of consent decrees, and more. I have attempted in this article to grapple with these issues in a fair and unbiased manner. Given the complexity of this problem, however, these matters are open to a variety of interpretations and this is just one approach. I hope, however, that this article can provide a useful starting point for a discussion about the future of provisional voting in Ohio and in the nation at large.
This paper is a first look by a student member of the Election Law @ Moritz team and reflects one possible perspective on the issue. Stay tuned, as more analysis from the team will follow as the litigation develops. Owen Wolfe is affiliated with the Ohio Democratic Party and the Obama ’12 campaign, but is not in any way associated with any litigation team working on this case. EL@M has posted the document because we believe it has public value and adds to the discourse on this topic.
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