"Election Reform since November 2000: What's Changed

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http://electionline.org/Portals/1/Publications/Final.2006.Annual.report.pdf

Electionline.org released "Election Reform since November 2000: What's Changed, What Hasn't and Why," a "non-partisan, non-advocacy account of the state of the American electoral system a month after the deadline for significant changes."

"The report finds that while as many as one-third of the states will miss deadlines in the Help America Vote Act, looking at election reform changes since November 2000 reveals that there has been a tremendous amount of change in the way Americans cast their ballots."

"The one thing we have definitely seen is a dramatic spike in the scrutiny that the election process receives as well as an increased willingness of defeated candidates and their supporters to challenge the results."

"Change brings uncertainty and uncertainty is always fertile breeding ground for error. In the current partisan environment . . . the ingredients are there for election controversy in one or more states. We can't predict that it will happen but conditions are there for it to happen."

http://electionline.org/Portals/1/Publications/Final.2006.Annual.report.pdf