Research links

Campaign finance

Federal Election Commission (FEC): regulations and raw data

http://fec.gov

FEC Disclosure Reports: scans of candidate and committee filings

http://images.nictusa.com/info.html

Political Money Line: search raw data

http://fecinfo.com/

Roll call, Representatives, Committees

Charles Stewart's Congressional data

http://web.mit.edu/17.251/www/data_page.html

Poole and Rosenthals Roll Call data and analysis

http://voteview.com

Congressional Biographies search engine

http://bioguide.congress.gov/

Vote smart

link

Interest group score cards

VIS REPORT CARDS

AFL-CIO

link

ACU

http://www.acuratings.org/

Truth and Politics links

link

General info/news on elections/congress

Congressional quarterly

http://cq.com

National Journal/Almanac

1998, 2000, 2002, 2004

Lexis-Nexis

http://web.lexis-nexis.com/congcomp

U Michigan list of resources

list

Geographic units (congressional districts, counties, ...)

Congressional District Dataset

link

Census: 108th Congressional District Summary Files

link

Factfinder search engine

http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/2003/108th.html

Elections and election Administration

elections.fas.harvard.edu
additional papers and resources for detecting voting irregularities and analyzing elections

VerifiedVoting.org
information on the need for voter verified paper ballots as part of electronic voting, and other important information about voting technology.

Voting and Elections by Douglas W. Jones
Excellent tutorials on the history and technology of voting.

People

Walter Mebane

Jasjeet Sekhon