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Auditing the Election Ecosystem

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Alvarez, R. Michael; Atkeson, Lonna Rae; Hall, Thad E.
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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 election management is through comprehensive evaluations, which we refer to as election ecosystem audits (EEA). These audits are evaluations of an election from start to finish. Accomplishing this goal requires election officials coordinating the efforts of contractors—from ballot printers to voting machine companies—third parties, like the US Postal Service who transport absentee ballots and the entities who agree to house polling places, and the poll workers who actually implement the election at the polls. Managing this vast enterprise requires election officials to evaluate their election activities so that they can improve the implementation of the process over time.
Date issued
2009-08-10
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http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/96617
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Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project
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VTP Working Paper Series;85

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