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Whose Absentee Votes Are Counted?
(Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2004-04)
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 ...
Rational and Pluralistic Approaches to HAVA Implementation
(Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2005-07)
The Help America Vote Act (HAVA) has created a new dynamic for the oversight and implementation of federal elections, requiring states to assume greater control of election processes vis-a-vis their local governments than ...
How Hard Can It Be: Do Citizens Think It Is Difficult to Register to Vote?
(Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2006-07)
Political equality is seen as an intrinsic normative principle for the adequate functioning of a democratic republic. However, it is well documented that in the United States there are many qualified citizens who do not ...
UOCAVA: A State of the Research
(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 ...
Auditing the Election Ecosystem
(Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2009-08-10)
Election administration is a highly complex process that involves multiple actors all working to achieve the goal of running an effective election. One critical technique for gathering the performance data needed to improve ...
Voting: What Has Changed, What Hasn't, & Why: Research Bibliography
(Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2013-01-08)
Since the origins of the Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project in the fall of 2000, there has been an explosion of research and analysis on election administration and voting technology. As we worked throughout 2012 on ...
The Balance Between Preventing Fraud and Ensuring Participation: Attitudes Towards Voter Identification in New Mexico
(Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2011-07)
This paper examines public opinion on the effectiveness and consequences of voter identification laws in New Mexico. In particular, it focuses on the attitudes central to the court reasoning in the 2008 Supreme Court case ...
The American Internet Voter
(Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2009-09)
Since the creation of the Internet, there have been a seemingly never-ending number of books and analyses about the role of the Internet in Politics. Many of these books fail to keep in mind that the behavior of ...
New Barriers to Participation: Application of New Mexico's Voter Identification Law
(Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2007-11)
In democratic societies there is a tension between maximizing ballot access and minimizing voter fraud. Since the 2000 presidential election, this tension has been central to discussions about election reform, at the ...