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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 ...
Scantegrity II Municipal Election at Takoma Park: The First E2E Binding Governmental Election with Ballot Privacy
(Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2010-02-01)
On November 3, 2009, voters in Takoma Park, Maryland, cast ballots for mayor and city council members using the ScantegrityII voting system—the first time any end-to-end (e2e) voting system with ballot privacy has been ...
Voter Opinions about Election Reform: Do They Support Making Voting More Convenient?
(Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2010-07-14)
We study public opinions about convenience voting reforms, using a unique state-by-state survey conducted in the 2008 presidential election. Our analysis of the American voting public’s support for potential convenience ...
Waiting to Vote in 2012
(Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2013-04-01)
Waiting in line to vote is one of the clichés of Election Day, whether the venue is Kenya or the United States. The length of time waiting to vote has regularly been an issue in the voting wars of the past decade. Long ...
Making Voting Easier: Convenience Voting in the 2008 Presidential Election
(Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2010-03-15)
In this study we analyze the choice of voting mode in the 2008 presidential election. We use a large-sample survey with national coverage that allows us to overcome limitations of previous studies. Our analysis provides a ...
Practical Provably Correct Voter Privacy Protecting End-to-End Voting Employing Multiparty Computations and Split Value Representations of Votes
(Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2014-05-12)
Continuing the work of Rabin and Rivest we present another simple and fast method for conducting end to end voting and allowing public verification of correctness of the announced vote tallying results. This method was ...
On Auditing Elections When Precincts Have Different Sizes
(Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2007-04-29)
We address the problem of auditing an election when precincts may have different sizes, and suggest methods for picking a sample of precincts to audit that takes precinct size into account. one method yields optimal auditing ...
Resolving Voter Registration Problems: Making Registration Easier, Less Costly and More Accurate
(Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2009-08)
The practice of voter registration has a long history in the United States. In 1800, Massachusetts was the first state to impose a voter registration requirement. By Reconstruction, voter registration was used in a handful ...
2008 Survey of the Performance of American Elections
(Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2009-07-19)
Election Day Voter Registration in the United States: How One-step Voting Can Change the Composition of the American Electorate
(Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2002-06)
For most Americans, voting requires two steps. First, an eligible citizen must register in some manner with an appropriate government agency. Second, once registered, the citizen can then cast a ballot on or before election ...