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Report to the U.S. Election Assistance Commission on Voter
Fraud and Voter Intimidation
In September 2005, the EAC contracted with a Republican consultant and me to
undertake a preliminary study of the incidence of voter fraud and voter intimidation
occurring in the United States. The goals of the project were to establish
a definition of voter fraud, conduct preliminary research into how prevalent
fraud and intimidation is and what types of such activities are most common,
and provide the EAC with recommendations for conducting further research in
a second phase of the project. A draft report was submitted in August of 2006,
and as of this writing is still under review by the EAC.
Project on Nonpartisan Administration of Elections, in collaboration
with American University, Common Cause, and the Lawyers Committee for Civil
Rights
Planned Research
Establishing Best Practices for State Challenge Laws and Practices,
in collaboration with the Brennan Center for Justice
Highlights of Previous Research
Voting
in 2006: Have We Solved the Problems of 2004? – primary author, in collaboration with Common Cause
and the Leadership Conference for Civil Rights Education Fund, October 2006
Voting in 2006 was a detailed examination of whether ten key
states had improved their election procedures since the problems reported in
the 2004 presidential election. In addition to a full analysis of the state
of reform on all the important election issues, the report includes a state-by-state
analysis of where each state stands in its progress in improving its voting
system.
Fraud, Reform, and Political Power: Controlling
the Vote, From Nineteenth-Century America to Present-Day Georgia --
A research brief examining how the current debate over voter identification
laws is a continuation of past partisan battles over claims of fraud and concomitant
campaigns for reform, October 2006
Improving Voter Participation—A brief providing proposals for lowering barriers to
the voting process and improving voter turnout, June 2006
Balancing Access and Integrity: The Report of the Century Foundation Working
Group on State Implementation of Election Reform, July 2005
The 2004 presidential election was the first big test of the Help America Vote
Act of 2002 (HAVA). Enacted in the wake of the deeply flawed 2000 election,
the law was passed in an effort both to improve the voting process and to increase
voter access. While there were improvements in the voting process in a number
of jurisdictions, the ways in which many states carried out the law’s mandates
produced a number of unintended consequences, resulting in allegations of fraud
and voter disenfranchisement. The Century Foundation assembled the Post-2004
Election Working Group to find ways for states to implement future elections
in a way that balances ballot integrity with voting rights and accessibility.
The report covered the topics of voter registration, provisional ballots, statewide
voter registration databases, voter identification, testing and certification
of voting machines, and early voting. Tova Wang was the Executive Director
of the group that included Guy Charles, University Of Minnesota Law School;
Edward Foley, Moritz College Of Law, The Ohio State University; Samuel Issacharoff,
New York University School Of Law; Martha Kropf, University Of Missouri, Kansas
City; Norman Ornstein, American Enterprise Institute; Roy Schotland, Georgetown
University Law Center; and Daniel Tokaji Moritz College Of Law, The Ohio State
University.
Voting in 2004: A Report to the Nation on America’s
Election Process, in collaboration with Common Cause and the Leadership
Conference on Civil Rights Education Fund, December 2004
In December 2004, the three organizations hosted a day-long event on Capitol
Hill evaluating the 2004 presidential election. This report discusses the findings
and recommendations that emerged from that session.
Crashing the Parties: The Problem of Ballot Access, September 2004
African Americans, Voting Machines, and Spoiled Ballots, September 2004
Primary Education, in collaboration with Electionline.org, January 2004
– a report examining national and state reform issues that could have an impact
on the 2004 primaries.
Reports on the 2001 Elections in New York City, New
Jersey and Virginia, October 2002
Reforming the Voter Registration System, July 2002
To Assure Pride and Confidence in the Electoral Process, National Commission
on Federal Election Reform (“Carter/Ford Commission”), July 2001
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