Election/Voting Resources
National, state, local, and campus voting resources
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Early Voting - Oct. 20 - Oct. 31
Harris County Early Voting Locations
Voting by Mail (Received, not postmarked, by Oct. 28)
Voting Guides
League of Women Voters Guides for Harris County are available in Fondren Library at the following desks: Circulation, Reference, and Government Information (basement). Online guides are also available for Harris and Fort Bend Counties.
Houston Bar Association Judicial Preference Poll Results (not an endorsement)
Check your registration status and precinct information
- Can I Vote (for anywhere in the United States). Created by state election officials to help eligible voters check their registration status and determine how and where to vote.
- Harris County Voter Registration - Searchable database of registered voters.
Also includes voter registration and address change information
- Harris Votes - Includes:
*Early voting locations
*Educational information about the electronic voting system
*Election day polling locations
*Election results
*English, Spanish, or Vietnamese versions - *Voting Information - lists the offices you vote for in your precinct. Select Voting Information, pull down Find Your Voting Info., and as directed fill out either your street address, your name and address, or your precinct number.
*Sample ballot
- Find Where You Vote with Google Maps - Input your complete address to get driving, walking or public transportation directions to your polling place.
Electoral College
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Rice Election Information
Texas Election Information
Election Results
Election Wikis
Congresspedia (Sunlight Foundation and the Center for Media and Democracy)
Nicknamed the “citizen's encyclopedia on Congress that you can edit.”
Includes the following sections:
- Wiki the Vote - Contains profiles of U.S. Congressional candidates, election coverage, and listings of local U.S. Congressional-related blogs by state. Encourages contributors to research and post information about U.S. Congressional candidates and to add pictures of the profiled candidates.
- U.S. Presidential Election, 2008 - Discusses announced and rumored presidential candidates and provides some information about primaries, debates, Congressional endorsements, and political ads.
Political Parties
Additional Election Resources
- CNN.com POLITICS
CNN political and election coverage. - CQ Voting and Elections Collection
Integrates a wealth of data, authoritative analyses, concise explanations, and historical material. Years of data vary by category. - American National Election Studies (ANES)
Research data on voting, public opinion, and political participation.
- Bobst Library's Irwin Mann Voting & Democracy Virtual Library
Collection of materials related to voting, elections, and electoral reform throughout the world.
- Campaign Finance Reform--Political Moneyline
Non partisan federal candidate campaign money page "who gave what to which Federal candidates when.
- Center for American Women and Politics (CAWP)
Current and historical (state and national) information about women officeholders and candidates.
- Center for Responsive Politics -- Opensecrets.org
Non-profit, non-partisan Washington, D.C. based campaign finance research group.
- Congressional Resources
Annotated links for a variety of Congressional topics.
- Elections 2008
Comprehensive University of Michigan site which includes general background information as well as links to information about candidates (presidential, congressional, and state), campaigns, policy issues, election results and voting, and academic research.
- Elections 2008
Vanderbilt University module teaching how to evaluate the candidates' political ads and Web pages.
- Electoral-vote.com
Originally designed to provide data about electoral votes. Now expanded to include polling data for federal house and senate races on a state-by-state basis.
- Federal Election Commission
Financial information about candidates, parties, and PAC's.
- Federal Election Statistics
Presidential and Congressional election statistics back to 1920.
- Federal Voting Assistance Program
Information about how overseas soldiers and expatriate voters can request and get ballots by fax and e-mail as well as by the slower postal service. Also includes links for local election officials about postal regulations and envelope design for overseas ballots.
- League of Women Voters
For local information see League of Women Voters of Houston and Texas State League of Women Voters
- National Journal
A weekly (since 1969) publication discussing conventions and policy for the upcoming election.
- National Mail Voter Registration Form
Register to vote from anywhere in the U.S.; check site for registration deadlines and limitations in selected states. Access state election Web sites and additional resources for military and overseas voters. - Polling the Nations
 No account or password necessary.
Polling the Nations compiles 300,000 questions and responses from more than 12,000 surveys conducted in the United States and 70 other countries.
- Project Vote Smart
Information about candidates, Congress, and politics. You can also locate your representatives by zip code.
- Record of American Democracy (ROAD) 1984-1990
Data includes election returns, socioeconomic summaries, and demographic measures of the American public at unusually low levels of geographic aggregation (SPSS, or SAS packages need to be used).
- Texas Ethics Commission Campaign Finance Guide
Guide for candidates officeholders for all non-judicial state elective positions - good resource for information about candidate reporting requirements.
- United States Election Assistance Commission
A national clearinghouse and resource for information and review of procedures with respect to the administration of Federal elections.
- U.S. House of Representatives - Look Up Your Representative
Identify your representative by zip code.
- VoterWatch
Search videos of Congress by keyword or speaker or both to find a specific issues or discover what your senators and representatives are saying. Click on a specific part of a video to email or include in a blog. Provided by a nonpartisan nonprofit organization.
- Voting America
Created by the Digital Scholarship Lab at the University of Richmond to provide analysis of and cinematic and interactive maps for the U.S. Presidential elections from 1840-2004. Provides election data to the county level.
- Who Represents Me? (Texas)
Information about elected officials and their districts for districts of the Texas Senate, Texas House of Representatives, Congress (Texas delegation, U.S. House of Representatives), and the Texas State Board of Education.
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