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The Electoral College (From the National Archives and Records Administration)
e-democracy.org Excellent Presidential election links; e-democracy.org is a nonprofit group aimed at improving democracy via technology.
The Electoral College (.PDF) (From the Federal Election Commission, a 20-page essay.)
OnTheIssues.org (From OnTheIssues.org, a non-profit providing non-partisan information for voters in the Presidential election) Issue position summaries.
Presidential
Campaign Information (From Project Vote Smart)
Includes extensive information on voter registration and election offices state by state.
PresidentMatch.com (From AOL News and TIME) Provides side-by-side comparisons of candidate positions, points to larger Presidential Race site.
2004 Vote (From C-SPAN)
Includes archive of C-SPAN coverage of presidential election events.
CNN's AllPolitics
Includes pre-election stories and will contain election results when available, as well as articles on House, Senate, gubernatorial, presidential and ballot measure elections.
Voter Registration and Turnout
About Elections and
Voting (From the Federal Election Commission)
Includes data on voter registration and turnout statistics; voting
systems; registration requirements; the impact of the Motor Voter law, and
more.
Voting
and Registration (from the U.S. Bureau of the Census)
"Information on reported voting and registration by various demographic
and socioeconomic characteristics is collected for the nation in November
of congressional and presidential election years in the Current Population
Survey (CPS)." Includes detailed information from recent surveys and
historical trends in selected areas.
ELECnet: Election
Administration Resources on the Internet
This GetVoting411.us site includes links to state, county and city elections
offices.
Federal Voting Assistance Program (FVAP)
"The FVAP provides U.S. citizens worldwide a broad range of non-partisan
information and assistance to facilitate their participation in the
democratic process - regardless of where they work or live."
Ballot Access News
Political Parties
"a non-partisan newsletter reporting on the trials and tribulations of
folks trying to put candidates on the ballot in the United States of
America." Available issues go back to 1994 and beyond.
Political
Parties (From Project Vote Smart)
Includes links to numerous political party web sites.
Campaign Finance
The Federal Election Commission
"The Federal Election Commission (FEC) is the independent regulatory
agency charged with administering and enforcing the federal campaign
finance law. The FEC has jurisdiction over the financing of campaigns for
the U.S. House, the U.S. Senate, the Presidency and the Vice
Presidency."
Campaign Finance Reform
(From the Brookings Institution)
"The special focus of this site is campaign finance law and administration.
It provides critical background information on current law and regulations,
tracks important legal developments in court cases and administrative decisions,
and reports on proposed new legislation and other reform proposals." The
site is searchable back to 1995.
Follow the Money (From
The National Institute on Money in State Politics)
This resource includes breakdowns of contributions to winners and losers running in
state elections, down to the individual donation level. Data goes back several
election cycles, and the website also includes extensive analyses of the role
of money in state elections.
General News Sources (From LexisNexis
Academic - UW Only)
Political News Resources
Searchable database of political news (full-text articles) and transcripts of
ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN and NPR news broadcasts going back at least ten years. Click
on "Guided News Search" for best searching possibilities.
Roll Call
"Roll Call offers news features, commentary, election previews and
special issues throughout the year, giving both print and Web
readers an opportunity to get an insider's view on Congress."
The Hill
"The Hill reports and analyzes the actions of Congress as it struggles to
reconcile the needs of those it represents with the legitimate needs of
the administration, lobbyists and the news media."
AllPolitics
Includes politically oriented articles from CNN, Time Magazine, and
Congressional Quarterly.
CQ Researcher -- Articles on Voting (UW Only)
Articles from Congressional Quarterly Press.
Political news articles can also be found using bibliographic databases such as PAIS International, Research Library Complete, LexisNexis Academic, and the Washington State Newsstand. These can be located at Databases & Catalogs page of the Libraries Information Gateway. (UW Only)