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- 270toWin.com
"An interactive Electoral College map for 2008 and a history of Presidential elections in the United States."
- Analysis of an Electronic Voting System
Covers vulnerabilities in electronic voting systems.
- Black Box Voting
Information and discussion about electronic voting systems.
- Campaigns and Elections
Campaign news and analysis. Includes a Political Pages Directory with extensive links to political news, blogs, information, and advocacy sites.
- CPSR: Voting Technology
Collection of articles on computers and voting machines from Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility.
- Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections
Award-winning site with information on the U.S. election process, the electoral college, election results from the founding to the present, and maps of results from national to county level.
- Election 2002 Web Archive
"A selective collection of nearly 4,000 sites archived between July 1, 2002 and November 30, 2002."
- Electoral College Calculator
"The calculator will display running totals and votes needed to win. By checking the 'advanced features' checkbox you can split the votes of a single state among several slates, and you can copy the results of a prior election to the currently displayed map. Data for all prior U.S. elections is available."
- Elections and Voting
"Frequently Used Sites Related to U.S. Federal Government Information" pertaining to elections and voting.
- Federal Election Commission
"The duties of the FEC, which is an independent regulatory agency, are to disclose campaign finance information, to enforce the provisions of the law such as the limits and prohibitions on contributions, and to oversee the public funding of Presidential elections."
- Fundamental of Polling
"POLLING 101 provides definitions, examples, and explanations that serve to introduce interested students to the field of public opinion research."
- How Do Caucuses Work?
Discusses the role of primaries and caususes in the American electoral system.
- Interactives: Statistics
"n an election season, it's common to hear news reports regarding poll results. What do these figures mean and where do we get them? Follow a year in a fictitious election campaign for an inside look at the mathematics behind the polls and the news you hear everyday."
- On The Issues
"Our mission is to provide non-partisan information for voters in the Presidential election, so that votes can be based on issues rather than on personalities and popularity."
- Polling Report.com
An independent, nonpartisan resource on trends in American public opinion.
- Project Vote Smart
Information about elected officials and issues both national and local.
- United States Elections
"This publication provides an introductory overview of the American electoral process for people who are not familiar with U.S. election practices and traditions."
Last updated May 27, 2008