Elections Reform: Overview and Issues

Coleman, Kevin J. ; Fischer, Eric A.

Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service.

关键词: Elections;    Election forecasting;    Electoral college;    Voting machines;    Presidents;   

RP-ID  :  RS20898
RP-ID  :  RS20898 2003-01-30

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来源: UNT Digital Library

【 摘 要 】

This report discusses several issues as the Congress considers legislation to reform the voting process, a number of issues have emerged as part of the debate: the reliability of different types of voting technologies; voting problems and irregularities in the 2000 election; problems for militaryand overseas voters; the electoral college; and early media projections of election results. Both sessions of the 107th Congress considered and debated federal election reform legislation, and the Help America Vote Act (HAVA, P.L. 107-252) was enacted in October 2002.