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Alvarez, R. Michael and Hall, Thad E. Electronic Elections: The Perils and Promises of Digital Democracy. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008.

Bugliosi, Vincent. The Betrayal of America.  How the Supreme Court Undermined the Constitution and Chose our President. New York: Nation Books, 2001.

Chaum, David. "Secret-Ballot Receipts: True Voter-Verifiable Elections."  IEEE Security & Privacy, January/February 2004.

Campbell, Tracy. Deliver the Vote.  A History of Election Fraud, An American Political Tradition -- 1742 - 2004. New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, 2005.

Elliott, Ward E. Y. The Rise of Guardian Democracy.  The Supreme Court's Role in Voting Rights Disputes, 1845-1969. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1974.

Fund, John. Stealing Elections.  How Voter Fraud Threatens Our Democracy. San Francisco: Encounter Books, 2004.

Gerken, Heather K. The Democracy Index. Why Our Election System Is Failing and How to Fix It. Princeton: Princetion University Press,  2009.

Goldman, Robert M. A Free Ballot and a Fair Count.  The Department of Justice and the Enforcement of Voting Rights in the South, 1877-1893. New York: Fordham University Press, 2001.

Goldman, Robert M. Reconstruction & Black Suffrage.  Losing the Vote in Reese & Cruikshank. Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 2001.

Gumbel, Andrew.  Steal This Vote: Dirty Elections and the Rotten History of Democracy in America. New York: Nation Books, 2005.

Harris, Beverly.  Black Box Voting: Ballot Tampering in the 21st Century. Renton: Talion Publishing, 2004.

Herrnson, Paul S. et al. Voting Technology. The Not-So-Simple Act of Casting a Ballot. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2008.

Keyssar, Alexander. The Right to Vote.  The Contested History of Democracy in the United States. New York: Basic Books, 2000.

Miller, Mark Crispin.  Fooled Again. New York: Basic Books, 2005.

Mercuri, Rebecca.  "A Better Ballot Box?"  IEEE Spectrum, October 2002.

Reeves, Keith. Voting Hopes or Fears?  White Voters, Black Candidates & Racial Politics in America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.

Rogers, Donald W. ed. Voting and and the Spirit of American Democracy.  Essays on the History of Voting and Voting Rights in America. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1992.

Rubin, Aviel D.  Brave New Ballot.  The Battle to Safeguard Democracy in the Age of Electronic Voting.  New York: Morgan Road Books, 2006.

Sabato, Larry J. and Simpson, Glenn R. Dirty Little Secrets.  The Persistence of Corruption in American Politics. New York: Times Books, 1996.

Saltman, Roy G. The History and Politics of Voting Technology: In Quest of Integrity and Public Confidence. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.

Schaffer, Frederic Charles, ed.  Elections for Sale: The Causes and Consequences of Vote Buying.  Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2007.

Selker, Ted. "Fixing the Vote." Scientific American, October 2004.

United States General Accounting Office. "Elections: Statistical Analysis of Factors That Affected Uncounted Votes in the 2000 Presidential Election." GAO-02-122. October 15, 2001.

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