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The Complexity of the California Recall Election
(Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2003-11-06)
The October 7, 2003 California Recall Election strained California’s direct democracy. In recent California politics there has not been a statewide election conducted on such short notice; county election officials were ...
Whose Absentee Votes Are Counted?
(Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2005-02-01)
Absentee voting is becoming more prevalent throughout the United States. While there has been some research focused on who votes by absentee ballot, little research has considered another important question about absentee ...
Who Should Run Our Elections? Public Opinion About Election Governance in the United States
(Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2006-02)
Much has been said since the 2000 presidential election regarding the administration of elections in the United States, particularly in regards to how election administrators are selected and to whom they are responsive. ...
Are Americans Confident Their Ballots Are Counted?
(Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2006-07-17)
Expanding the large literature which investigates the characteristics of citizen and voter trust in government we analyze the heretofore neglected topic of voter trust in the electoral process. In this paper, we present ...
Electoral Context and Voter Confidence: How The Context of an Election Shapes Voter Confidence in the Process
(Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2009-04)
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, ...
Military Voting and the Law: Procedural and Technological Solutions to the Ballot Transit Problem
(Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2007-03-08)
During the 2000 presidential election controversy in Florida, the ballots submitted by individuals living overseas—especially military voters—were seen as crucial to the election outcome as the margin of potential victory ...
Voter Opinions about Election Reform: Do They Support Making Voting More Convenient?
(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 ...
Resolving Voter Registration Problems: Making Registration Easier, Less Costly and More Accurate
(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 ...
Flooding The Vote: Hurricane Katrina and Voter Participation in New Orleans
(Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2008-11-10)
The flooding of New Orleans from Hurricane Katrina resulted in a massive and rapid exodus of individuals from New Orleans to locations around the United States. In the midst of the hurricane recovery, the City of New Orleans ...
Voter Attitudes Toward Poll Workers in the 2008 Election
(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 ...