Securing the Vote - An Analysis of Election Fraud

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"While the issue of fraud is raised continually in
discussions of election reform, to date there have been
no major studies of election fraud in the United States."

Securing the Vote; An Analysis of Election Fraud
By David Callahan and Lori Minnite (Barnard College) April 14, 2003
http://www.demos.org/pub111.cfm

View the document (pdf) http://www.demos.org/pubs/EDR_-_Securing_the_Vote.pdf

An in-depth study of election fraud issues and the policy requirements of the Help America Vote Act.

Executive Summary

Election fraud is a hotly contested topic in public debates about electoral reform. Debates over election fraud are not new. They have been a staple part of discussions about elections and democracy in the United States for more than a century. But in recent years, issues of fraud and voting integrity have increasingly come to the forefront of public policy discussions over the health of America's democracy.

Since the 2000 election, a historic effort has been underway to strengthen voting systems across the 50 U.S. states and also to address obstacles to broader electoral participation. However, at both the federal and state level, efforts to move forward a reform agenda have frequently been complicated by heated debates over issues of election fraud and the integrity of voting systems.

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