Elections and Voting

• Census Bureau provides a variety of information on voting and registration, such as:
  • Voting and Registration Tables
  • Reported Voting and Registration by Race, Hispanic Origin, Sex and Age Groups: November 1964 to 2004
  • Reported Voting and Registration for Total and Citizen Voting-age Population by State: Presidential Elections 1972 to 2004
• Colorado Ballot Proposal Information provides access to the Blue Book Analysis of the statewide ballot initiatives in Colorado for 1998-2004. It also provides information on getting an initiative on the ballot along with a listing of initiated and referred constitutional and statutory amendments since 1964.
• Colorado Secretary of State Elections Center provides certified election results, a directory of registered lobbyists, and campaign finance database.
• Prior Election Information provides information on the number of registered voters, voter turnout and provisional ballots.
• The Congressional Research Service, the research arm of Congress, prepares reports (usually under 20 pages long) on topics of interest to member of Congress. Search the Congressional Research Reports CU database for reports on elections from 1916 to the present. Try search terms like "elections" or "voter registration" for results on this topic.
• Election Assistance Committee, Election Resources provides links to statistics on voter turnout and demographics.
• Election Statistics "Since 1920, the Clerk of the House has collected and published the official vote counts for federal elections from the official sources among the various states and territories. These documents, out of print for many years, have been collected and scanned in a format to make them once again available to researchers and students."
• Electoral College page from the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) provides electoral college results from 1789, number of electoral college members by state and other information. In addition, the site provides citations to the relevant portions of the Constitution and federal law, a procedural guide for the Electoral College, and a list of frequently asked questions. As the states submit Certificates of Ascertainment and Certificates of Vote, NARA plans to post image copies of the documents. It is also providing links to official and unofficial counts from the individual states.
• Federal Election Commission (FEC) "In 1975, Congress created the Federal Election Commission (FEC) to administer and enforce the Federal Election Campaign Act (FECA) - the statute that governs the financing of federal elections." The FEC web site includes:
• Campaign Finance Reports and Data
• Campaign Finance Law and Regulations
• National Mail Voter Registration Form
• Federal Voting Assistance Program provides information about absentee ballots and links to state and territorial offices for the Secretary of State or Directors of Elections.
• Election 2000 "The Election 2000 Collection developed for the U.S. Library of Congress by the Internet Archive, and Compaq Computer, is now being made available as an Internet library containing archived copies of more than 1000 election-related Web sites (http://archive.alexa.com). The collection, searchable by date, by web site, and by category via Alexa’s new Wayback Machine technology, contains more than two million megabytes, or about 87 million pages, of election-related information gathered between August 1, 2000 and January 14, 2001, including what was published on the candidates’ web sites, political party sites, and major news sites."
• Election 2002 Web Archive a collective product of the Library of Congress and other organizations, the Election 2002 Web Archive is a selective collection of nearly 4,000 sites archived between July 1, 2002 and November 30, 2002.
• Elections 2004 is a Department of State page providing background information on elections 2004 as well as various links to relevant elections sites.
• Secretaries of State and/or Directors of Elections
  This Department of Defense page links to the department that handles elections for all fifty states.

• ACE Electoral Knowledge Network provides comprehensive information on elections throughout the world.
  • Comparative Data on how countries run elections
  • Country Specific Information and News
  • Elections Calendar
  • Elections Encyclopedia
  • Electoral Materials is a searchable database of election realated publications
• Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe Better known as the Helsinki Commission. This Commission is an independent agency of the United States Government. Site includes narrative reports on key elections in European countries.
• International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance provides information on election laws, systems and administration in various countries. Has tabulations of this data such as voter turnout statistics.
• Inter-Parliamentary Union includes links to known parliamentary web sites by country, documents, lists of members, and ParLine: a database about national legislatures which includes:
• General information on each of the Parliament's chambers
• Description of the electoral system
• Results of the most recent elections
• Information on the presidency of each chamber.
• Organization for Security and Co-Operation in Europe, Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights this Elections page has a calendar of elections, as well as reports on monitoring projects undertaken by this group. It also has an election calendar, and results from monitored elections.
• United Nations Electoral Assistance Division

• ACLU Congressional Scorecard Voting records of the Congress on issues of interest to the ACLU.
• American Presidency Project
  • Presidential Candidates Debates: 1960 - 2004 provides text transcripts of the presidential debates from 1960 forward.
  • Presidential Elections Data provides data on electoral and and popular votes of each presidential election from 1828 forward. Also includes a map showing how each state voted in every election.
• Center for Responsive Politics (OpenSecrets.org) includes a race-by-race analysis of campaign contributions for the upcoming elections, congressional candidate profiles, and detailed analysis of major PAC contributions. The Personal Finance section includes copies of personal finance reports filed by the members of the House and Senate, the President, and selected presidential candidates.
• CQ MoneyLine Search campaign finance donors and recipients by name, zip code, city, state, employer/occupation, and year.
• CQ Voting and Elections Collection CU this database integrates a wealth of data, authoritative analyses, concise explanations, and historical material to help researchers investigate and understand voting and elections in America.
• EISA is a non-governmental organization that promotes credible elections and democratic governance in Africa.
  • African Election Calendar
  • Country Profiles
  • Comparative data and analysis
  • Election Archive
• Elections Results Archive Includes election results by country from Binghamton University's Center on Democratic Performance.
• Elections U.S.A. Database of all presidential elections from 1948 to 2000 plus gubernatorial and U.S. Senate election results in all 50 states.
• Initiative and Referendum Institute This institute, at the University of Southern California, traces initiatives and referendums in all fifty states.
• International Foundation for Election Systems (IFES)
  • Association of African Election Authorities (AAEA) promotes the professional nature of African election authorities
  • ElectionGuide is an election calendar of upcoming elections around the world
• Latin American Election Statistics this resource put together by the Latin Studies Librarian at University of California, San Diego provides "chronologies of elections since independence at the municipal, state, and federal levels and list sources of statistics for each election as identified."
• League of Conservation Voters Scorecards rates House and Senate members on votes related to the environment.
• Money in State Politics Follow the Money database "tracks contributions in all 50 states and makes this data easily searchable online."
• Project Vote Smart provides information on candidates and elected officials in five basic categories: biographical information, issue positions, voting records, campaign finances and interest group ratings.
• Rulers: This site contains lists of heads of state and heads of government from the 1960's to the present. (Historic information is available for selected countries.) Also includes a monthly "chronicle" of events: cabinet changes, elections, and other information. Includes selected international organizations
• U.S. Congress Votes Database this is a database (provided by the Washington Post) of how each member of Congress has voted on bills since 1991. You can search by bill or Congress member. This site may require free registration.

• The Library Catalog, Chinook
  There are numerous secondary, federal, and international sources of information on welfare and welfare reform available in the collection.
  
  Try these searches to see some of the resources in Chinook , the library catalog:

  Electronic Resources	Print and Electronic Resources
  election*+and+vot*	election*+and+vot*
  voting rights	voting rights
  campaign finance	campaign finance
  election* and vot* (government publications only)	election* and vot* (government publications only)

  
  The * can replace up to five characters.

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