Writing in a hurry today; this post is mostly a reminder to myself to explore the Brennan Center’s site thoroughly, because there are so many meaty issues the center is involved with. But feel free to explore the links on your own.

Here’s how The Brennan Center for Justice describes itself:

“The Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law is a non-partisan public policy and law institute that focuses on fundamental issues of democracy and justice. Our work ranges from voting rights to redistricting reform, from access to the courts to presidential power in the fight against terrorism. A singular institution—part think tank, part public interest law firm, part advocacy group—the Brennan Center combines scholarship, legislative and legal advocacy, and communications to win meaningful, measurable change in the public sector.”

For the purposes of this blog the most important mission of the Brennan Center is its focus on voting rights and elections.   Categories within this group include Election Day Issues, EAC Oversight, Allegations of Voter Fraud, Voter ID, Voter Lists and Databases, Voter Purges and Challenges, Voter Registration, Voting After Criminal Conviction*, and Voting Technology.

Within the Voting Technology category you can find a link to the center’s publication Post-Election Audits: Restoring Trust in Elections, co-written with members of the Samuelson Law, Technology and Public Policy Clinic at Boalt Hall School of Law (University of California Berkeley), based on a blue-ribbon panel of statisticians, voting experts, computer scientists and leading election officials.  (You can find the executive summary of the paper here .)

Lots of food for thought here.  What I’m wondering as I type this, since this definitely appears to be a liberal-oriented organization, is what the conservative counterpart to the Brennan Center would be.

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*Speaking of voting after criminal conviction, don’t forget to look at the Rhode Island Right to Vote page. 

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