The largest electronic voting machine companies:

• Diebold
• ES&S
• Sequoia Voting Systems

Computer science experts who have questioned the security and reliability of electronic voting machines:

• Verified Voting (Stamford University prof. David Dill's organization)
• Computer science expert Rebecca Mercuri's voting technology update

One example of problems with electronic voting machines:

• Johns Hopkins University report on security flaws in code used by Diebold
• Diebold's response to the charges:

Non-partisan evaluations of electronic voting systems:

• Caltech-MIT/Voting Technology Project
• California Voter Foundation

Disenfranchisement in the U.S.:

• National Voting Rights Museum and Institute, founded by survivors of Bloody Sunday
• The U.S. Department of Justice, "The Right to Vote, How Federal Law Protects You"
• Information about foreign language requirement for ballots from the U.S. Department of Justice
• Testimony by the American Association of People with Disabilities, "VOTING RIGHTS AND PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES"
• Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law, "Voting Rights of People with Mental Disabilities"
• Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law, "Voting Rights and the ADA"
• Project on Disability Politics at University of Arkansas
• A 2001 report by the U.S. General Accounting Office, "VOTERS WITH DISABILITIES, Access to Polling Places and Alternative Voting Methods"
• ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union), Voting Rights page
• NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People), Voting Rights page
• English First, an organization opposed to bilingual ballots
• Advancement Project

Felons and voting:

• The Sentencing Project, a non-profit advocacy group that supports the development of alternative sentencing programs
• Draft of a forthcoming paper by sociologists Christopher Uggen, Angela Behrens, and Jeff Manza, "Ballot Manipulation and the 'Menace of Negro Domination': Racial Threat and Felon Disenfranchisement in the United States, 1850-2002"
• Demos USA report, "Restoring Voting Rights to Citizens with Felony Convictions"
• The Center for Equal Opportunity, a conservative think tank

HAVA (Help America Vote Act):

• Electionline.org is a non-partisan, non-advocacy website providing news and analysis on election reform
• The Federal Election Commision's site about HAVA
• Demos USA's HAVA resource page

Victims rights:

• The Jenna Foundation for Non-Violence, a victims rights group

Other voting-related sites:

• The League of Women Voters, a nonpartisan political education and advocacy organization
• Demos USA, a think tank and advocacy group
• Project Vote Smart, a non-partisan organization that provides a comprehensive database about thousands of candidates and elected officials
• Election Center, an organization of election and voter registration offficials
• A Brief Illustrated History of Voting by Douglas W. Jones

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