The following projects are ongoing in the Representation area:
The U.S. Senate Election Data Base, 1871-1913, is an NSF-funded project to thoroughly document elections to the U.S. Senate from 1871-1913, which is the end of the period when Senate elections were conducted in state legislatures. The data project is collecting over one million discrete pieces of information about roll call voting patterns, elections to state legislatures, and struggles over the organization of state legislatures. You can keep track of progress collecting data at the following link: senate.jot.com.
The Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project was founded after the 2000
election fiasco as an interdisciplinary research group that
specializes in the scientific analysis of voting technologies and
administrative practices. Faculty and students associated with the
project are involved in studies as diverse as ballot design, election
auditing, the effects of technology on voting errors, and voter
identification laws. The research has been published in books,
peer-reviwed articles, law journals, and congressional testimony. For
more informatio about the project, visiting the web site at
http://www.votingtechnologyproject.org/