"America Goes to the Polls," a new report by the Nonprofit Voter Engagement Network, gives us a comprehensive picture of voter turnout in 2006, and compares it to other midterm elections over the past 30 years. We also get to see how the states rank in turnout. The report also contains recommendations for reform.

And how do Americans fare when they go to the polls? We get an excellent and very thorough sense of how disabled voters fare in the newly released report by computer expert Noel Runyan, "Improving Access in Voting: A Report on the Technology for Accessible Voting Systems," published by VoterAction and Demos. This report puts to rest the idea that DREs best accommodate the needs of disabled voters.