Election Resources
A Select Bibliography of Resources at Palomar College Library

WEBSITES

California Election Information, California State University Chico
http://www.csuchico.edu/library/gov/election_ca.html

Comedy Central's Indecision 2008
http://www.indecision2008.com

Declare Yourself
http://www.declareyourself.com/home/home.html

Elections 2008, University of Michigan Library Documents Center
http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/elec2008.html

Election2008: Candidates and Information
http://www.congress.org/congressorg/e4/?

Federal Election Commission
http://www.fec.gov/index.shtml

ProCon.org (2008 elections presenting pro/con on candidates)
http://www.2008electionprocon.org/

Project Vote Smart
http://www.vote-smart.org/index.htm

Secretary of State, California: Elections and Voter Information
http://www.ss.ca.gov/elections/elections.htm

Vote411 (League of Women Voters)
http://vote411.org

Websites that Check accuracy of campaign claims:  FactCheck (Univ. Pennsylvania) at http://www.factcheck.org/ and Politifact (CQ and St. Petersburg Times) at http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/

Additional election- and voter-related websites may be found on the Library's Government Resources (http://www.palomar.edu/library/subjects/government.htm#Elections) page.

BOOKS AND MEDIA

The books listed below may be found at Palomar College Library; for location and additional information about each title, click the blue hyperlink. Search our catalog for related books (at the search form, click "Browse" and then type "Voting or Elections" in the search box), or search the catalogs of other libraries.

JK528 .B44 1975
Best, J. (1975). The case against direct election of the President: A defense of the Electoral College. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.

JK1994 .G27 1995
Garber, M. (1994). Ballot security and accountability. Washington, D.C.: National Clearinghouse on Election Administration, Federal Election Commission.

JK1764 .G56 1990
Ginsberg, B. & Shefter, M. (1990). Politics by other means: The declining importance of elections in  America. New York: Basic Books.

JK1067 .J3 1991
Jacobson, G.C. (1992). The politics of congressional elections. New York: Harper Collins.

JK529 .L63 1996
Longley, L.D. & Peirce, N.R. (1996). The electoral college primer. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press.

JK1976 .U217 2004
McCaffrey, P. (Ed.). (2004). U.S. election system. New York: H.W. Wilson.

JK1987 .P58 1989
Piven, F.F. & Cloward, R.A. (1989). Why Americans don't vote. New York: Pantheon Books.

PERIODICAL ARTICLES

The full-text of the following articles may be found by clicking on the blue hyperlink.  Find additional articles in other online databases.  Passwords are required for off-campus access to these databases.

Baretto, M., Streb, M., Marks, M. &Guerra, F. (2006). Do absentee voters differ from polling place voters? New evidence from California. Public Opinion Quarterly, 70(2), 224-234. Retrieved October 11, 2006, from EBSCO Host (Academic Search Premier) database.  http://prozy.palomar.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=21216730&site=ehost-live

Developments in the law voting and democracy. (2006, February). Harvard Law Review, 119(4), 1127-1200.  Retrieved October 11, 2006, from EBSCO Host (Academic Search Premier) database.  http://prozy.palomar.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=19864882&site=ehost-live

Katel, P. (2006, September 15). Voting controversies. CQ Researcher, 16, 745-768. Retrieved October 11, 2006, from CQ Researcher Online database.  http://prozy.palomar.edu/login?url=http://library.cqpress.com/cqresearcher/document.php?id=cqresrre2006091500

Purnick, J. (2006, September 26). Stricter voting laws carve latest partisan divide. The New York Times, p. A1(L). Retrieved October 11, 2006, from Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center database. http://prozy.palomar.edu/loginurl=http://find.galegroup.com/ovrc/infomark.do&contentSet=IACDocuments&type=
retrieve&tabID=T004&prodId=OVRC&docId=A151875723&source=gale&srcprod=OVRC&userGroupName=cclc_palomar&version=1.0

Songini, M. (2006). Concerns about fraud potential continue to plague users of electronic voting machines. Computerworld, 40(27), 7. Retrieved October 11, 2006, from EBSCO Host (Academic Search Premier) database.  http://prozy.palomar.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=21464018&site=ehost-live

1/24/08 rev.