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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 ...
American Elections: A Critical Moment for Research and Reform
(Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2004-12-03)
The 2004 election provided important lessons regarding the performance of voting technology, about continuing problems with voter registration and provisional balloting, issues with procedures and poll site voting practices, ...
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 ...
Reflections on the VTP's contributions to science, policymaking and education
(Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2010-09)
In the immediate wake of the 2000 presidential election, the Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project was initiated. The initial and primary concern of the VTP at that moment was to understand the problems that arose in the ...
Voting Technology, Vote-by-Mail, and Residual Votes in California, 1990-2010
(Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2011-05-05)
This paper examines how the growth in vote-by-mail and changes in voting technologies led to changes in the residual vote rate in California from 1990 to 2010. We find that in California’s presidential elections, counties ...
Detecting Voter Fraud in an Electronic Voting Context An Analysis of the Unlimited Reelection Vote in Venezuela
(Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2009-06-23)
Between December 2007 and February 2009, Venezuelans participated twice in constitutional referenda where the elimination of presidential term limits was one of the most salient proposals. Assuming voter preferences did ...
Mobilizing Pasadena Democrats: Measuring the Effects of Partisan Campaign Contacts
(Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2008-06-28)
This paper examines the effect of an entire campaign using a randomized field experiment here the treatment consists of campaign decisions made by a campaign manager. In contrast to the majority of the field experiments ...
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, ...