Elections Technology

Roy Saltman's seminal NIST paper on elections systems, probably the most-cited work on electronic vote-counting:

Accuracy, Integrity and Security in Computerized Vote-Tallying
http://www.nist.gov/itl/lab/specpubs/500-158.htm

Two more papers by Roy Saltman:

Adopting Computerized Voting in Developing Countries: Comparisons with the US Experience
http://www.cpsr.org/issues/voting_saltman.html

Assuring Accuracy, Integrity and Security in National Elections: The Role of the US Congress
http://www.cpsr.org/conferences/cpf93/saltman.html

Rebecca Mercuri's encyclopedic and widely-respected elections technology site, with many links

http://mainline.brynmawr.edu/~rmercuri/notable/evote.html

or http://www.notablesoftware.com/evote.html

Lorrie Faith Cranor's voting page, with a link to her popular e-lections mailing list

http://www.research.att.com/~lorrie/voting/

California Task Force Report on Internet Voting

http://www.ss.ca.gov/executive/ivote/final_report.htm#final-1

A brief history of voting equipment

http://inventors.miningco.com/science/inventors/library/weekly/aa111300b.htm

California Internet Voting Initiative

http://www.votesite.com

Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project

http://www.vote.caltech.edu

Two articles by Bruce Schneier of Counterpane Labs on voting security

http://www.counterpane.com/crypto-gram-0102.html#10

and http://www.counterpane.com/crypto-gram-0012.html#1

Internet Policy Institute's Report of the National Workshop on Internet Voting: Issues and Research Agenda

http://www.netvoting.org/Resources/InternetVotingReport.pdf

Some companies with Internet voting products or announced plans

These companies vary greatly in their level of sophistication and funding

Election.com

http://www.election.com (Formerly Votation.com)

iBallot LTD

http://www.iballot.com

Safevote

http://www.safevote.com

and http://www.thebell.net

Validity Systems

http://www.eballot.net

VoteHere.net

http://www.votehere.net

Elections Generally

Resources for elections administrators around the world, and succinct explanations for election tasks ranging from voter education to vote counting:

http://www.aceproject.org

A wealth of elections resources; a worldwide elections calendar; and an extensive, searchable worldwide elections equipment buying guide:

http://www.ifes.org

Paper: Turnout Decline in the U.S. and other Advanced Industrial Democracies, by Martin P. Wattenberg

http://www.democ.uci.edu/democ/papers/marty.html

Elections in the US

2000 election

http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2000/results/

Electoral college votes by state from 1788 to 1996

http://www.nara.gov/fedreg/elctcoll/ecfront.html

Florida election law

http://www.leg.state.fl.us/statutes/

California Voter Foundation (information of interest to any voter):

http://www.calvoter.org

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