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    • Resolving Voter Registration Problems: Making Registration Easier, Less Costly and More Accurate 

      Alvarez, R. Michael; Hall, Thad E. (Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2009-08)
      The practice of voter registration has a long history in the United States. In 1800, Massachusetts was the first state to impose a voter registration requirement. By Reconstruction, voter registration was used in a handful ...

    • Results and Implications: The June "Top-Two" Primary & California's 2012 Legislative Races 

      Sinclair, J. Andrew (Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2012-11-02)
      This report summarizes some basic results of California’s June 2012 “Top-Two” primary. It focuses on legislative offices with multiple districts within the state: California State Assembly, California State Senate, and ...

    • The SAVE System: Secure Architecture for Voting Electronically: Existing Technology, with Built-in Redundancy, Enables Reliability 

      Selker, Ted; Goler, Jonathan (Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2004-01-04)
      Existing technology is capable of yielding secure, reliable, and auditable voting systems. This system outlines an architecture based on redundancy at each stage of the ballot submission process that is resistant to external ...

    • Scantegrity II Municipal Election at Takoma Park: The First E2E Binding Governmental Election with Ballot Privacy 

      Carback, Richard; Chaum, David; Clark, Jeremy; Conway, John; Essex, Aleksander; e.a. (Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2010-02-01)
      On November 3, 2009, voters in Takoma Park, Maryland, cast ballots for mayor and city council members using the ScantegrityII voting system—the first time any end-to-end (e2e) voting system with ballot privacy has been ...

    • Scantegrity Responds to Rice Study on Usability of the Scantegrity II Voting System 

      McBurnett, Neal; Carback, Richard T.; Chaum, David; Clark, Jeremy; Conway, John; e.a. (Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2014-12-28)
      This note is a response to, and critique of, recent work by Acemyan, Kortum, Bryne, and Wallach regarding the usability of end-to-end verifiable voting systems, and in particular, to their analysis of the usability of the ...

    • Security Vulnerabilities and Problems with VVPT 

      Selker, Ted; Goler, Jon (Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2004-04)
      A proposed Voter Verifiable Paper Trail (VVPT) includes a printed ballot as a receipt that a voter can view to verify their vote before leaving an electronic voting machine. This method is also supposed to insure the ...

    • Study Shows Ballot Design and Voter Preparation Could Have Eliminated Sarasota Florida Voting Errors 

      Selker, Ted (Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2008-02-06)
      Election results showed extremely inconsistent voting rates for two high profile races in the Florida counties of Sarasota, Charlotte, and Sumter on November 7, 2006. The expected missing selections for these races were ...

    • Studying Elections: Data Quality and Pitfalls in Measuring the Effects of Voting Technologies 

      Alvarez, R. Michael; Ansolabehere, Stephen; Stewart III, Charles H. (Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2004-11)
      Professor Geralyn Miller reminds us of the range of voting administration practices across the United States. We use this variability to study the average performance of various types of voting equipment throughout the ...

    • Testimony on Voter Verification 

      Selker, Ted (Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2005-06-21)
      In the past five years, following the 2000 Florida election fiasco, the voting technologies used in the United States have undergone a significant change. The use of direct recording electronic (DRE) voting machines has ...

    • The ThreeBallot Voting System 

      Rivest, Ronald L. (Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2006-10-01)
      We present a new paper-based voting method with interesting security properties. The attempt here is to see if one can achieve the same security properties of recently proposed cryptographic voting protocols, but without ...

    • UOCAVA: A State of the Research 

      Hall, Thad E. (Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2008-09-15)
      The problems faced by overseas civilians, military personnel, and their dependents—individuals covered by the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act (UOCAVA)—have existed since the nation’s founding. From the ...

    • Using Recounts to Measure the Accuracy of Vote Tabulations: Evidence from New Hampshire Elections 1946-2002 

      Ansolabehere, Stephen; Reeves, Andrew (Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2004-01)
      The 2000 presidential election exposed a surprisingly high level of inaccuracy in the tabulation of ballots. Differences between total vallots cast and votes counted were as high as 19 percent in some counties in Florida, ...

    • Vertical Proximity Effects in the California Recall Election 

      Sled, Sarah M. (Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2003-10-27)
      The 2003 California recall election provides a unique opportunity to assess the impact of variations in ballot design and voting methods on the voting accuracy of citizens. Analysis of the results of the California Recall ...

    • Voter Attitudes Toward Poll Workers in the 2008 Election 

      Hall, Thad E. (Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2009-04)
      At a conference on election reform held by the National Academies of Science in 2004, Indiana’s Secretary of State, Todd Rokita, referred to poll workers as “the street level lawyers” of elections. The reason for his ...

    • Voter Confidence in 2010: Voter Identification, Perceptions of Fraud, Winning and Losing and the Voter Experience 

      Atkeson, Lonna Rae (Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2011-04-17)
      Over the last decade, scholars of American politics have invested research time and effort into the study of election administration and election performance. These include studies onresidual vote analysis (Wand et al 2001; ...

    • Voter Confidence in Context and the Effect of Winning 

      Llewellyn, Morgan H.; Hall, Thad E.; Alvarez, R. Michael (Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2008-08)
      A number of recent studies examine how confident voters are that their ballots are counted as intended in U.S. federal elections from 2000 to 2004. One consistent finding of these studies is that, relative to Democrats, ...

    • Voter Opinions about Election Reform: Do They Support Making Voting More Convenient? 

      Alvarez, R. Michael; Hall, Thad E.; Levin, Ines; Stewart III, Charles H. (Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2010-07-14)
      We study public opinions about convenience voting reforms, using a unique state-by-state survey conducted in the 2008 presidential election. Our analysis of the American voting public’s support for potential convenience ...

    • Voter Registration: Past, Present, and Future 

      Alvarez, R. Michael (Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2005-06-17)
      The Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project identified problems with voter registration as a pressing problem in the 2000 presidential election; between 1.5 and 3 million votes were lost due to voter registration problems ...

    • The Voter Verifiable Audio Audit Transcript Trail (VVAATT) 

      Selker, Ted (Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2004-09-29)
      The debate about verifiable voter audit trails has prematurely narrowed into two camps: those who categorically deny the need for any back-up records and those who advocate the Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT). ...

    • Voting by Overseas Citizens and Deployed Military Personnel 

      Inbody, Donald S. (Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2013-06)
      The principal problem in serving overseas citizens and military voters is how best to return a marked ballot to local election officials. Prior to 2009, insufficient time was provided for an overseas voter’s ballot to be ...