Legal Research Links - Elections & Politics
Elections
- The Center for Voting and Democracy online library is a repository of articles and reports about proportional representation, electoral reform, and a variety of other relevant subjects.
- CNN Politics.com for news, issues, analysis, polls.
- E-Democracy is a non-partisan, non-profit site offering news about the 2004 elections
- Elections Yahoo index to election sites.
- Electoral College laws from each state.
- Federal Election Commission includes financial information on the candidates and their parties, press releases, and a national mail voter registration form that can be downloaded.
- Kids Voting Kansas promotes children's education about voting and participating in government.
- Opensecrets.org is a guide to the money in US elections.
- CQ MoneyLine for campaign finance news.
- So You Want to Buy a President?
- USA Today - Politics includes information on most recent elections.
- Vote: The Machinery of Democracy Smithsonian National Museum of American History has created this website as the online incarnation of one of their current exhibits.
GAO Reports on the Elections
- "Elections: A Framework for Evaluating Reform Proposal".
- "Elections: Perspectives on Activities and Challenges Across the Nation".
- "Elections: Statistical Analysis of Factors That Affected Uncounted Votes in the 2000 Presidential Election".
- "Elections: Status and Use of Federal Voting Equipment Standards".
Politics
- American Government and Politics at ThisNation.com
- Democratic National Committee.
- Making Democracy Work: A Brief History of Twentieth-Century Federal Executive Reorganization offers a comprehensive review of executive reorganization throughout the twentieth century.
- Political Information.com search engine covering 2000+ political and policy sites.
- Politics and Society from The Atlantic Monthly.
- Reform Party.
- Republican National Committee.
- Socialists.
- Vote Smart Web political information.
Historical Election Sites
- Issue Coverage Tracker - Campaign 2008 from the Washington Post. Review press coverage and opinion writing on the presidential candidates and the major issues of the 2008 campaign.
- Elections 2008 from the Univ. of Michigan is a comprehensive index to web-based election information.
- U.S. Election 2000 Web Archive contains archived copies of pages from the 2000 presidential election.
- Gore's and Bush's 2000 speeches.
- The Living Room Candidate is a history of Presidential campaign commercials since 1952.
- Florida Vote Counts
- PBS Democracy Project on local races, interactive poll results and analysis.
- Campaign Finance Reports and Data from the Federal Election Commission.
- To Assure Pride and Confidence in the Electoral Process is the final report of the National Commission on Federal Election Reform.
- Finding Precedent: Hayes vs. Tilden; The Electoral College Controversy of 1976-1877.
- Voting and Registration in Past Elections has information on reported voting and registration by various demographic and socioeconomic characteristics.