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Chapter Eight: Voting, Campaigns, and Elections
Weblinks
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www.thisnation.com/voting.html
This site deals with the complexities of who in American can and cannot vote.
www.ncsl.org/programs/press/2001/electref0801.htm
This site contains a report on recommendations to improve voter access and accuracy of counting votes based on analyses done in recent elections where discrepancies systematically manifested.
www.libsci.sc.edu/BOB/class/clis734/webguides/votinginamerica.htm
This website provides details about the history of the registration process itself.
www.vote-smart.org/
Project Vote Smart is a non-partisan voting information system that provides viewers with updated evaluations of candidates voting records and summaries of their positions on the issues.
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0781453.html
This site provides a table of voter turnout in terms of real numbers and percentages of VAP (voting age population) for presidential and mid-term elections between 1960 and 2008. It is very good for a snapshot reference of voting activity in the U.S. but is short on specifics regarding what lies beneath the numbers.
www.mlive.com/us-politics/index.ssf/2008/11/that_huge_voter_turnout_didnt.html
At this site you will find an article written shortly after the 2008 presidential election discussing the failure of predicted high levels of voter turnout. The site employs the VEP (voting eligible population rather than the VAP (voting age population), look at the difference in measures between this and the previous link's table.
www.votetrustusa.org/
This site is for an interest group called Vote Trust whose agenda is to alter local voting laws and regulations to eliminate institutional barriers to vote and ballot access.
www.fec.gov/hava/hava.htm
This is the text of the Help America Vote Act of 2002 which was done to resolve some of the voting discrepancy issues uncovered in the 2000 presidential election.
www.heartland.org/Article.cfm?artId=20346
A generally positive discussion of the potential for e-voting to solve some of the issues relating to ballot access inequalities by one of its adherents. |
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