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Appendix: Further Resources

Provisional Balloting

Demos: A Network for Ideas and Action
www.demos-usa.org/ProvisionalBalloting

League of Women Voters
www.lwv.org/elibrary/pub/voting_help-vote.pdf

Election Protection

People For the American Way
www.pfaw.org

Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law
www.lawyerscomm.org

Advancement Project
www.advancementproject.org

Resources on the Help America Vote Act

Demos: A Network for Ideas and Action
www.demos-usa.org/HAVA

Leadership Conference on Civil Rights
www.civilrights.org/issues/voting

electionline.org
www.electionline.org/site/docs/pdf/2004.Election.Preview.Final.Report.pdf

The Century Foundation
www.tcf.org

Felony Disfranchisement / Purging Voter Rolls

Demos: A Network for Ideas and Action
www.demos-usa.org/VotingRights

Right To Vote
www.righttovote.org

Brennan Center for Justice and NYU School of Law
www.brennancenter.org

American Civil Liberties Union
www.aclu.org

The Sentencing Project
www.sentencingproject.org


Election Fraud

Demos: A Network for Ideas and Action
www.demos-usa.org/Democracy

National Voter Registration Act

Demos: A Network for Ideas and Action
www.demos-usa.org/NVRA

Project Vote
www.projectvote.org

 


Publications

Placebo Ballots
Will "Fail-Safe" Provisional Voting Fail?
October 28, 2004
Demos' Ari Weisbard examines the practice of provisional balloting after the implementation of the Help America Vote Act.


Purged!
Will Eligible Voters Be Purged From Election Rolls?
October 27, 2004
Purged! provides an in-depth analysis of the confusing, disorganized and often partisan process used to "purge" voter rolls and deny eligible Americans the right to vote.


Divided Citizens
How Inequality Undermines Trust in America
May 1, 2004
An exploration of the importance of social trust in U.S. society and troubling ways in which rising economic inequality since the 1970s has helped to decrease trust between Americans.


Democracy Denied
The Racial History and Impact of Disenfranchisement Laws in the United States
February 26, 2004
This brief examines the relationship between criminal justice practices that disproportionately target people of color, and disenfranchisement laws that deprive citizens convicted of felonies of their right to vote.


Punishing at the Polls
The Case Against Disenfranchising Citizens With Felony Convictions
November 24, 2003
Political scientist Alec Ewald sheds new light on the fundamentally undemocratic nature of felony disenfranchisement laws. Tracing the history of these laws from ancient Europe to their racist application in the post Civil War U.S., Ewald concludes that felony disenfranchisement laws are in profound conflict with America's best ideals of fairness and traditions of democracy.


Securing the Vote
An Analysis of Election Fraud
April 14, 2003
An in-depth study of election fraud issues and the policy requirements of the Help America Vote Act.


 

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