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Machines Versus Humans: The Counting and Recounting of Pre-Scored Punchcard Ballots
(Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2005-09-20)
The counting of ballots, especially punchcard ballots, has received a great deal of attention in the years following the 2000 presidential election in Florida. Much of the research literature has focused on various measures ...
The Effect of Voter Identification Laws on Turnout
(Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2007-10)
Since the passage of the “Help America Vote Act” in 2002, nearly half of the states have adopted a variety of new identification requirements for voter registration and participation by the 2006 general election. There has ...
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 ...
An Empirical Bayes Approach to Estimating Ordinal Treatment Effects
(Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2008-07)
Ordinal variables — categorical variables with a defined order to the categories, but without equal spacing between them — are frequently used in social science applications. Although a good deal of research exists on the ...