In light of the 2000 presidential election controversy and troubles with voting in Florida, the Caltech/ MIT Voting Technology Project (VTP) was formed to evaluate election systems to prevent these problems from recurring. Several studies and press releases by the VTP are documented on its home page, including one that found a "35% improvement in Florida's voting technology" for the 2002 election,...

Released in June 2001 amidst some controversy, this draft report of the United States Commission on Civil Rights (USCCR) finds, among other things, that African-American voters in Florida were at least nine times more likely than other voters to have their ballots rejected in last year's presidential election and that the state's poorer counties were much more likely to use voting systems with...