ACCURATE: a center for for correct, usable, reliable, auditable, and transparent elections
http://accurate-voting.org/
ACCURATE is an American multi-instiution research body funded by the national Science Foundation. Its main area of concern is the study of the use of technology in voting and elections. Its website provides information on its remit and activities. It includes press releases, speeches, event transcripts and many full text reports from its own and related election technology projects dating from 2003 to the present day. Topics covered including electronic voting, electronic voter counting and the security of online voting procedures.
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ACE Electoral Knowledge Network
http://www.aceproject.org/
The ACE Electoral Knowledge Network is managed by seven partner organisations: Elections Canada, EISA, Instituto Federal Electoral - Mexico, IFES, International IDEA, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), and the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA).
It aims to provide free access to a database of comparative information on national election systems and processes worldwide. This will enable international comparisons to be made easily. Topics covered include: the nature of the electoral system, voter registration and voter education procedures, vote counting, legislative practices, election laws, election management and processes.
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AEI-Brookings Election Reform Project 
http://www.electionreformproject.org/
The AEI-Brookings Election Reform Project is a joint initiative of the Brookings Institution and the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy. It was launched in 2006 and aims to highlight recent research relating to all aspects of US election reform and to aid with the implementation of the Help America Vite Act. Its website provides information about the aims of the project, its activities and events. It also acts as a clearing house to highlight ongoing research work and offer access to full-text working papers and reports. Topics covered include: voting regulation, voting methods (absentee voting, postal voting, electronic voting) the use of id cards as a measure to prevent electoral fraud, voter registration, voter access and election administration. Users may sign up to receive regular newsletters.
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Age of electoral majority
http://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/document-summary?assetid=16128
This site provides access to a report published in April 2004 by the Electoral Commission. ISBN 1904363393. It discusses the possible impact of lowering the minimum age for voting in the Uk. Topics covered include: public opinion and media coverage of the issue and the possible impact on voter turnout levels. The report also considers issues relating to citizenship education and voting age and presents a survey of the situation in other nations. Users should note that the full-text is in PDF format and therefore requires access to an Adobe Acrobat Reader for use.
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Angus Reid Global Scan Polls and Research Archive
http://www.angus-reid.com/
Angus Reid Global Scan is a component of Angus Reid Consultants (ARC)-an international partnership dedicated to exploring and understanding public opinion at the regional, national and global level. Since 2003 it has provided free access to public opinion polls and election tracking from nations worldwide. Topics covered include parliamentary and presidential elections, political and voting intentions, and studies of public viewpoints on global issues. The election tracking section contains polls and brief analysis for a large number of elections held since 2003.
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Audit of political engagement 4 - report
http://www.hansardsociety.org.uk/blogs/downloads/archive/2007/09/26/audit-o
This site provides access to the full-text of a research report conducted by MORI and the Hansard Society on behalf of the Electoral Commission and published in March 2007. It is the Fourth annual audit report. It presents an audit of the extent and nature of political engagement in Britain. This includes information about levels of political knowledge and participation amongst members of the public. Topics covered include voter turnout levels. Information on the research methodology is provided. Users should note that the full-text is in PDF format and therefore requires access to an Adobe Acrobat reader for use
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British Journal of Political Science
http://www.cambridge.org/journals/journal_catalogue.asp?historylinks=ALPHA&
The British Journal of Political Science is a leading political journal which is published quarterly by Cambridge University Press. It covers a broad range of political science topics including political theory, political philosophy, international relations and public policy worldwide. The website provides free access to abstracts and tables of contents from 1997 onwards. Some sample articles can be downloaded free of charge. The full-text is available to subscribers only.
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Central Election Commission Ukraine
http://www.cvk.gov.ua/
This is the Central Election Commission of Ukraine Web site. It provides free access to recent official information on parliamentary and presidential elections in the Ukraine. This includes press releases, election results and full text electoral legislation and laws. The emphasis is on materials relating to the post soviet era. Most information is offered in Ukrainian and/or Russian only.
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CNN World Election Watch
http://edition.cnn.com/WORLD/election.watch/
This site is provided by the CNN news service it offers an up to date calendar of recent and forthcoming parliamentary and presidential elections worldwide. Each entry includes basic facts about the electoral system, election process and political parties participating. Information is supplied by IFES. There are also listings of recent election results.
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Commonwealth Secretariat Election Observer reports
http://www.thecommonwealth.org/Document/34293/35144/152078/election_observe
This site provides free access to news releases and full text reports from all recent Election Observer groups of the Commonwealth Secretariat. These discuss the conduct of parliamentary and presidential elections in nations of the Commonwealth. These include nations in Asia, Africa and pacific regions, offering useful insight into the elections; electoral system and state of democracy in these regions. Materials are generally available from approximately 2000 onwards.
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Comparative National Elections Project
http://www.cnep.ics.ul.pt/
The Comparative National Elections Project (CNEP) is a rich source of data on citizens, political communication and election campaigns worldwide. It comprises national election surveys conducted in over 19 nations since 1990. Users to the website can read information about the research and download many examples of datasets and questionnaires. Countries covered by the different surveys include Germany, Britain, the United States, Japan; Chile, Greece, Indonesia; South Africa; Spain and Uruguay. There is also a bibliography of associated publications and articles. Information on methodology and coverage is provided on the website.
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Competence Center for Electronic Voting and Participation (E-Voting.CC)
http://www.e-voting.cc/
Competence Center for Electronic Voting and Participation (E-Voting.CC) is a organisation founded by the Robert Krimmer with a team of European based researchers and research students which seeks to communicate, discuss and distribute information about information technology and politics, focusing in particular on electronic voting issues. Its website contains discussion forms plus links to papers and presentations from recent conferences on e-voting. It also supports a wiki style database of data from e-voting uses around the world.
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Constituency level elections archive
http://www.electiondataarchive.org/
Constituency-Level Elections Archive (CLEA) project is being led by Professor Ken Kollman of the University of Michigan, Professor Allen Hicken of the University of Michigan, Professor Daniele Caramani of the University of St. Gallen
Professor David Backer of the College of William & Mary. It aims to create a public repository of election results by constituency for parliamentary (lower house legsialtive) elections worldwide. Data will include results, votes cast, votes received by individual candidates and parties. The website provides information on the datasources plus free access to available datasets and code books.
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Daughters and left-wing voting
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/economics/staff/faculty/oswald/daughtersr
This site provides free access to the author version of a paper by Andrew J. Oswald, University of Warwick and Nattavudh Powdthavee, University of York which was prepared for publication in the Review of Economics and Statistics 2009. The 45 page article, uses data from the British Household Panel survey to consider influences on voting preferences. It argues that having daughters makes people more likely to vote for left-wing political parties, while those with sons are more likely to vote for right-wing political parties. Information on the methodology used is provided.
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Democracy, Citizens and Elections Research Network (DCERN)
http://www.dcern.org.uk/
The Democracy, Citizens and Elections Research Network (DCERN) is a research network based at the University of Manchester. It specialises in researching elections, electoral systems, electoral behaviour, election campaigns and political marketing, citizenship and participation and legislatures. Its website provides information on its aims, objectives and ongoiung research programmes. It includes free access to some full text working papers from its members.
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Democratic Divide
http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue10_4/birdsall/index.html
This site provides access to the full-text of an article by Stephanie Birdsall which was published in First Monday vol.10, no.4, April 2004. It considers whether the use of online Internet voting will increase voter turnout levels.
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Democratic Phoenix: Political Activism Worldwide by Pippa Norris (2002)
http://ksghome.harvard.edu/~pnorris/Books/Democratic%20Phoenix.htm
This site provides access to the draft version of a book which is to be published by Oxford University Press in 2002. It examines claims of declining electoral turnout and political participation worldwide. Documentary evidence is presented relating to party membership, civic engagement, political activist and protest groups and the traditional assumptions challenged. Also considered is the impact of new technology and the Internet on public participation in politics.
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Dimpled-Hanging-Pregnant-Chad.Com: The Impact of Internet Technology on Democratic Legitimacy by Beth Simone Noveck (2001)
http://www.cap.uni-muenchen.de/fgz/downloads/noveck_e.pdf
This site provides access to the full-text of a working paper published in 2001 by the Research Group on the Global Future of the CAP Center for Applied Policy Research Geschwister Scholl Institute for Political Science, University of Munich. It considers the impact of Internet technology on political legitimacy and democracy. The author argues that it has the potential to undermine legal rules and cultural differences. Users should note that this paper is in PDF format and therefore requires access to an Adobe Acrobat Reader for use.
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District Level Electoral Data on the Internet
http://www.duke.edu/%7Emms16/DistrictLeveldatasources.htm
This basic guide is maintained by Matthew M. Singer, Department of Political Science, Duke University. It comprises a directory of links to on-line sources of election results and electoral data at national, regional and local levels for a large number of nations worldwide. These include links to Electoral commission websites . Annotation on scope of coverage is provided. date of last update is listed on the website.
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Domestic Observers Group
http://www.electiondog.net
The Domestic Observers Group (ElectionDog.Net) is maintained by the Committee of Voters of Ukraine. Its website is an excellent source of information about elections and election monitoring activities in Eastern and Western Europe, Post-Soviet countries, Canada and the USA. It is particularly good for tracing press releases and full reports from NGOs (non-governmental organisation) election monitoring organisations. It also provides free access to OSCE regulations and handbooks relating to elections and calendars of forthcoming parliamentary and presidential elections worldwide.
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Ekloges
http://www.ekloges.gr/
This is the official website of the Greek government department responsible for overseeing local, national and European elections in Greece. It offers information about the Greek political system, electoral system and government as well as full text documents including the constitution and current electoral laws. Also accessible are election results from 1981 onwards. Users should note that some sections of the site are offered in Greek only.
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Election Resources on the Internet
http://electionresources.org/
This site produced by Manuel ÃÆÃÂlvarez-Rivera, who also maintains the official website of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico Elections Commission, contains links to Internet sites around the world which provide complete and detailed national and local election statistics, as well as other election resources. Many of the resources have been compiled and written by Alvarez-Rivera and not only give election results but also some commentary on the electoral systems in place.
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Election results archive: Center on Democratic Performance
http://cdp.binghamton.edu/era/index.html
This site is maintained by the Center on Democratic Performance, Binghamton University. It provides free access to a collection of national parliamentary and presidential election results from over 134 countries worldwide dating from 1974 to the present day. Information on the compilation of the data is provided on the website.
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Election Updates: New Research, Analysis and Commentary on Election Reform, Voting Technology, and Election Administration.
http://electionupdates.caltech.edu/
This web blog is maintained by US electoral specialists and provides up to date commentary and analysis relating to elections and technology. Its main emphasis is upon American elections. It regularly alerts to new full-text publications and project data available on the Internet. There are also links to associated Election Updates podcasts. Archives from 2005 onwards can be viewed on the website. Topics covered include: electronic voting, election technology, election administration, electoral reform and election fraud. Lonks are provided to other web blogs covering elections and voting technology.
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Elections and Technology Index
http://aceproject.org/ace-en/topics/et
The Elections and Technology Index has been compiled by the Administration and Cost of Elections Project (ACE) of IDEA (International Institute of Democracy and Electoral Assistance) it provides access to files which it has produced on information technology and elections. These covers a wide range of issues including: the types of technology available, security, financial management, administrative support and voter education. It also includes case studies from Palestine, Russia, Saint Lucia and Kyrgyzstan.
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