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Waiting in Line to Vote
(Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2013-07-28)
Waiting in line to vote is the most visible sign of the administrative friction of managing elections.
The visibility of long lines makes them a convenient symbol for those who seek to improve election administration. ...
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 ...
Research Note on Footnote 24 of the 6th Circuit Hunter Decision
(Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2011-02-03)
The decision issued by the three-judge panel of the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals in the matter of Hunter v. Hamilton County Board of Elections contains a very interesting analysis of problems with Ohio’s law about counting ...
What Hath HAVA Wrought? Consequences, Intended and Not, of the Post-Bush v. Gore Reforms
(Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2011-04-07)
The Help America Vote Act (HAVA)1 is the most important direct federal response to the 2000 electoral fiasco in Florida. HAVA had many provisions, some directly inspired by the controversy, others that came along for 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 ...
Pattern Matching Encryption, Strategic Equivalence of Range Voting and Approval Voting, and Statistical Robustness of Voting Rules
(Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2013-02)
We present new results in the areas of cryptography and voting systems.
1. Pattern matching encryption: We present new, general definitions for queryable encryption schemes – encryption schemes that allow evaluation of ...
Report on Registration Systems in American Elections
(Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2013-06-26)
Voter registration systems are the backbone of election administration in the United States today. These lists facilitate the operation of elections at the precinct level, communications by election officials and candidates ...
In Line or Online? American Voter Registration in the Digital Era
(Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2014-02-18)
Online voter registration is one of the most recent efforts to stimulate turnout in American elections. Within the past decade, an increasing number of states have begun to allow their residents to register as voters ...
Scantegrity Responds to Rice Study on Usability of the Scantegrity II Voting System
(Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2014-12-28)
This note is a response to, and critique of, recent work by Acemyan, Kortum, Bryne, and Wallach regarding the usability of end-to-end verifiable voting systems, and in particular, to their analysis of the usability of the ...
Results and Implications: The June "Top-Two" Primary & California's 2012 Legislative Races
(Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2012-11-02)
This report summarizes some basic results of California’s June 2012 “Top-Two” primary. It focuses on legislative offices with multiple districts within the state: California State Assembly, California State Senate, and ...