Even if you don't have much interest in U.S. politics, this looks interesting if only from the communications technology point-of-view. Clipped from Crooked Timber:
Voting error in the 2004 elections:
…Philip Howard, has [taken] a very innovative approach to teaching his class on Communication Technology and Politics at the University of Washington this Fall. He and his students have been collecting data about the use of communication technologies in the elections and writing reports about their findings.
The team has released reports on topics from the legalities of voteswapping to the political uses of podcasting. The latest article looks at voting error due to technological errors, residual votes and incident reports.