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Potential Threats to Statewide Voter Registration Systems
(Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2005-10-06)
The Help America Vote Act (HAVA), passed in 2002, requires that states implement "...a single, uniform, official, centralized, interactive computerized statewide voter registration list defined, maintained, and administered ...
Evaluating New Voting Technologies in Latin America
(Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2009-12-14)
Having remained virtually unchanged since the enactment of universal and secret suffrage at the end of the nineteenth century, voting procedures are undergoing a radical transformation in many countries through the ...
The Influence of Initiative Signature Gathering Campaigns on Political Participation (II)
(Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2005-12-12)
Does direct democracy increase political participation? Rather than focus on state-level effects of the initiative process, this paper studies the effect of signature gathering campaigns on participation within a state. ...
Why Everything That Can Go Wrong Often Does: An Analysis of Election Administration Problems
(Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2003-11-26)
Before the 2000 presidential election, few citizens in the United States paid much attention to election administration. But scholars have noted that election administration has been a problem for decades. Despite the ...
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 ...
Studying Elections: Data Quality and Pitfalls in Measuring the Effects of Voting Technologies
(Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2004-11)
Professor Geralyn Miller reminds us of the range of voting administration practices across the United States. We use this variability to study the average performance of various types of voting equipment throughout the ...
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 ...
Voter Registration: Past, Present, and Future
(Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2005-06-17)
The Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project identified problems with voter registration as a pressing problem in the 2000 presidential election; between 1.5 and 3 million votes were lost due to voter registration problems ...
Qualitative Evaluation: "VotoElectronico: Prueba Piloto 2005, Ciudad De Buenos Aires"
(Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2005-11-22)
The Buenos Aires “VotoElectronico” pilot project took place on October 23, 2005, in the City of Buenos Aires. It involved a pilot test of four different electronic voting systems, in at least 43 voting stations located ...
How Much is Enough? The "Ballot Order Effect" and the use of Social Science Research in Election Law Disputes
(Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2005-11)
Previous empirical research and other related research from survey methodology holds that candidates listed first on an election ballot may gain some measure of advantage from this ballot placement. Using data from the 1998 ...