Publications
Election Day Issues
Ballot Security and Voter Suppression
This paper addresses various ways that ballot security initiatives can result in discriminatory, unfair, and intimidating practices surrounding voting and voter registration.
Authored by: Wendy Weiser and Vishal Agraharkar
– 10/22/10
Online Voter Guides
The Brennan center released two updated voter guides for students and citizens who have moved. The guides are available online along with general information for voters.
Authored by: Brennan Center Voting Rights and Elections Team
– 09/21/10
Expanding Democracy: Voter Registration Around the World
This report is summarizes an examination of voter registration systems in sixteen countries. The United States is one of few democratic nations that place the entire burden of registering to vote on individual citizens. There is a better way to make voter registration more comprehensive and accurate, with clear benefits to voters, overall taxpayer savings, and less burden on election administrators.
Authored by: Jennifer Rosenberg with Margaret Chen
– 06/10/09
2008 & 2009 Ohio Elections Summit and Conference
After voting ended on Nov. 4, 2008, Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner announced a bipartisan convening to study the recent election with a goal of determining what went right as well as what could be improved. This is the final report from the summit and conference.
Authored by: Lawrence Norden with Jessie Allen
– 04/08/09
2008 Ohio Elections Summit
After voting ended on Nov. 4, 2008, Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner announced a bipartisan convening to study the recent election with a goal of determining what went right as well as what could be improved.
Authored by: Lawrence Norden with Jessie Allen
– 03/11/09
Is America Ready to Vote?
This report asks, in the face of election system problems, what procedures has each state put in place to ensure the integrity of every citizen’s vote? Put another way, in the event of voting machine problems on Election Day, how prepared is each state to ensure that every voter can vote, and that all of those votes will be counted?
– 10/16/08
An Agenda for Election Reform
This memorandum sets out a comprehensive election reform agenda for the 110th Congress and explains the reasons for each policy reform.
Authored by: Wendy R. Weiser and Jonah Goldman
– 03/07/07
An Agenda for Americas Voters: Election Reform in the 110th Congress
This federal election reform agenda is the product of years of research and experience by the civil rights, voting rights, civic participation, and progressive advocacy community.
Authored by: Brennan Center for Justice & Allies
– 02/15/07