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Glossary
Sample ballots
Data Sets
Vendor info
Key Legislation
State info
Other sources

Glossary

See our comprehensive glossary of election technology and administration terms.

Sample ballots

Here are a couple of key resources for sample ballots:

OrgNotesWhenTypeWhereLink
NISTA great resource of ballots2002-2005optical scanUSALink
Caltech\MIT VTPA great source historical source19th CenturyPaperCALink
Caltech\MIT VTPInternational and state ballotsmostly 2005VariesIndia, Los Angeles, New York City, FL, OHLink
Douglas W. JonesA Brief Illustrated History of Votingfar backVariesNALink
SmithsonianEarly American ballots19th CenturyPaperUSALink
BlackBoxVoting.orgLarger assortment of ballots2006VariesUSALink

Data Sets & Election Results

  • U.S. Election Assistance Commission's historical voter registration and turnout statistics [Link]
  • From the Caltech\MIT VTP: Including 2006 EAC Election Day Survey data, 2004 Presidential Election Data, and Links to US Secretary of State Election Data [Link]
  • An assortment of election data from the National Election Data Archive [Link]
  • County data from the 2000 Presidential Election in Florida. For each of the 67 Florida counties, the data include the type of voting machine used, the number of columns in the presidential ballot, the undervote, the overvote, and the official certified votes for each of the twelve presidential candidates. Of particular interest are the Buchanan vote in Palm Beach county, and the overvote as a function of voting machine type and number of columns (see Agresti and Presnell, "Misvotes, Undervotes, and Overvotes: The 2000 Presidential Election in Florida," Statistical Science, Vol. 17, No. 4, 1-5, 2002.[Link]
  • 2000 Election Data By State, from American University's Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies [Link]
  • From the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), national and state data from the 2000 election [Link]
  • Historical election results from the National Archives [Link]
  • Federal election data from the Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives [Link]
  • The Lijphart Elections Archive is a static research collection of district level election results for approximately 350 national legislative elections in 26 countries that was maintained through 2003. [Link]
  • The Mayoral Election Center, produced by the U.S. Conference of Mayors, provides a database of 1999 to present mayoral election results. The database may be searched or browsed by city or date of election. [Link]
  • Voting and registration data from the U.S. Census Bureau [Link]
  • U.S. Election Assistance Commission's 2004 Election Day Survey Results [Link]

Vendor info

Currently the major voting system vedors in the United States are:

  • Election Systems and Software
  • Diebold Election Systems
  • Hart Intercivic
  • Sequoia Voting Systems*

Key Legislation

State info

*(from electionline.org)
**(from National Conference of State Legislatures)

Other sources