What Hath HAVA Wrought? Consequences, Intended and Not, of the Post-Bush v. Gore Reforms by Stewart III, Charles H.

“…The Help America Vote Act (HAVA)1 is the most important direct federal response to the 2000 electoral fiasco in Florida. …”
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Potential Threats to Statewide Voter Registration Systems by Alvarez, R. Michael

“…The Help America Vote Act (HAVA), passed in 2002, requires that states implement "...a single, uniform, official, centralized, interactive computerized statewide voter registration list defined, maintained, and administered at the State level that contains the name and registration information of every legally registered voter in the State and assigns a unique identifier to each legally registered voter in the State." …”
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Access Versus Integrity in Voter Identification Requirements by Ansolabehere, Stephen

“…The Help America Vote Act hit a nearly fatal snag during the final stages of congressional negotiations over the bill in 2002. …”
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Election Technology and the Voting Experience in 2008 by Stewart III, Charles H.

“…Stewart (2006) estimated that one million votes were “recovered” in the 2004 presidential election because of the Help America Vote Act’s (HAVA) requirement that punch card ballots and lever machines be replaced by more modern optically scanned ballots and direct recording electronic (DRE) voting machines.…”
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Rational and Pluralistic Approaches to HAVA Implementation by Alvarez, R. Michael, Hall, Thad E.

“…The Help America Vote Act (HAVA) has created a new dynamic for the oversight and implementation of federal elections, requiring states to assume greater control of election processes vis-a-vis their local governments than was previously the case in most states. …”
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Pathways to a Trusted Electronic Voting System by Connolly, Jeremiah, Levy, Romain, Lindsey, Johnathan, Maro, Judith, Martin, Juan

“…In 2002, Congress passed the Help America Vote Act (HAVA) [1], largely in response to voting irregularities in the 2000 presidential election in Florida. …”
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Losing Votes by Mail by Stewart, Charles H., III

“…It shamed states and the federal government into action, yielding, in its most expansive (and expensive) manifestation, the Help America Vote Act (HAVA) of 2002.1 HAVA contained many provisions; the one that most concretely addressed the Florida recount controversy required states to phase out mechanical lever machines and punch card voting. …”
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The Effect of Voter Identification Laws on Turnout by Alvarez, R. Michael, Bailey, Delia, Katz, Jonathan N.

“…Since the passage of the “Help America Vote Act” in 2002, nearly half of the states have adopted a variety of new identification requirements for voter registration and participation by the 2006 general election. …”
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Poll Workers and Polling Places by Hall, Thad E., Moore, Kathleen

“…By focusing on addressing problems related to voting technology and voter registration, election reform in 2001 and 2002 attempted to address to technologies used in voting – the way people vote – and the processes that were used to address voting issues, such as allowing provisional voting when voter registration errors occurred. The Help America Vote Act (HAVA) focused most of its funding and reforms on modernizing voter registration systems by creating statewide voter registration systems and procedures for addressing problems with voter registration through provisional voting requirement and on modernizing voting systems by banning punch card voting in federal elections and requiring the adoption of new voting systems that were auditable and provided users with feedback regarding any errors they might have made in voting.…”
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