Videos

Thomas Mann talked about the casting of electoral votes today and the history of the electoral college.

Panelists spoke about the 2008 general election results, the potential impact of an Obama presidency, and potential shifts in U.S. policy as a result of Democratic Party gains in the House a…

The Brookings Institution held a panel discussion on the state of the presidential campaign in the final days before the 2008 election. Discussion focused on the effects of money, campaign a…

Security of Electronic Voting hosted by the National Archives.

The panel talked about the fate and implications of the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008. Topics included the rescue package, the 2008 election cycle, the international response,…

The authors talked about two research projects they conducted on six different voting and verification systems reported in their book, Voting Technology: The Not-So-Simple Act of Casting a B…

Brookings’s “Mending the Broken Branch” project released its report on congressional performance during the previous year and previewed the year ahead. The authors suggested that over the pa…