Current Interest

Elections-2008

2008 Election page - and an Election 2008 module that focuses on political ads and candidate web pages (Vanderbilt)

We have shortened it so that either module takes an hour or less.Vanderbilt
Elections 2006- background info., candidates, campaigns, policy issues, and election results and voting are covered (University of Michigan)
ballot initiatives stat-by-state map (Angus King, former Independent Governor of Maine)

Primaries & Cacauses

Unlike with national election, there is no one place that contains all the election results, you need to check them state by state. See the Department of Defense's web page of Secretary of States for all 50 states and some territories, each of these sites lists the official state results.

Interest more local? For those of you in Colorado registered as a Democrat or Republican you can go to the caucus on February 5th. Check out the Colorado State Publication's blog posting on the Colorado Caucus.

Background:

• Voting & Elections (Lunch & Learn Series) - get registered, find out your elected officials, information, political parties and organizations in Colorado
• Elections 2004 (State Dept.) - info, parties, calendar, poll sites...
• Elections/Voting sites - great comprehensive list of links to good sites (GoDoRT)
• Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections - maps, graphs and info of past presidential elections, 1789+

History

'Elections' - looks at American political parties of the past, presidential inaugurations, images of presidents & first ladies, our first uniform election day, political cartoons by Pat Oliphant & Herbert Block (Herblock), the 1877 electoral commission created by Congress to resolve the disputed presidential election of 1876, the 19th & 24th amendments (ending the poll tax & giving women the right to vote), & the Nixon-Kennedy debates.
Getting the Message Out! National Political Campaign Materials, 1840-1860 - politics in antebellum America; read about the presidential campaigns; check out campaign biographies of the candidates -- from William Harrison, Martin Van Buren, and James Birney to Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas; learn about the "second party system." (Institute of Museum and Library Services)

Candidates/campaign finance

• Project Vote Smart - candidates, issues, and more
• Center for Responsive Politics - contributions made to political candidates
• Follow the Money - candidates for STATE office and their campaign contributors as well as contributors by industry or special interest in the state.
• League of Women Voters - voter info, election reform, campaign reform; contacts for officials
• DemocracyNet - enter zip code for candidates running for office and info about their standance on issues
• Historical Historic Party Platforms, (1840-2000) - parties receiving electoral votes (American Presidency Project)

Statistics

Election Information - including Election Statistics 1920-Present
A New Nation Votes: American Election Returns, 1787-1825 - Philip Lampi of the American Antiquarian Society with digitization by Tufts University. Provides state, county and city election results for federal, state, and local officials, 1787-1825. You can search by combinations of states, candidates, office titles, and dates.
U.S . Electoral College- historic from 1789-2000: candidates, electoral & popular votes, notes (NARA)

The US Process

• Federal Election Commission - voter registration forms, summary financial information for federal campaigns and party finances
• U.S. Electoral College - a variety of information and statistics on presidential elections, data from 1789+
• 'Vote: the Machinery of Democracy' - looks at the history & variety of voting methods in the U.S.: the voice vote, "party ticket" (paper ballots listing candidates from just one party), Australian ballot, voting equipment, voting reforms of the early 1900s, etc.(NMAH,SI)
• To Assure Pride and Confidence in the Electoral Process - report from the National Commission on Federal Election Reform
• Elections the American Way - Library of Congress learning page

International

• Elections Around the World - elections, online political parties, Parliaments, electoral calendar and more
• Parline - database for foriegn elections monitoring - info on each country's governmental structure, each election result and the major parties involved with links to the organizations monitoring the elections. (Inter-Parliamentary Union)
• the Voter Turnout project - elections from 1948 to the present and rates the overall fairness of each election with 1 being fairest and 14 being the worst
• Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe - more than just European elections

Funding

Open Secrets - from the Center for Responsive Politics, a non-partisan, non-profit US research group which tracks money in politics and its effect on elections
Unfluence - a web program that generates interactive network maps of state level political contribution data

Colorado

Elections Division - news, refistere to vote, voter information, finances, etc.

Colorado Ballot Proposal Informatian - initiatives files adn teh process along with analyses

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