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Access Versus Integrity in Voter Identification Requirements
(Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2007-02)
The Help America Vote Act hit a nearly fatal snag during the final stages of congressional negotiations over the bill in 2002. The problem? Voter identification requirements. Many conservatives in Congress insisted on the ...
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 ...
The Balance Between Preventing Fraud and Ensuring Participation: Attitudes Towards Voter Identification in New Mexico
(Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2011-07)
This paper examines public opinion on the effectiveness and consequences of voter identification laws in New Mexico. In particular, it focuses on the attitudes central to the court reasoning in the 2008 Supreme Court case ...
New Barriers to Participation: Application of New Mexico's Voter Identification Law
(Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2007-11)
In democratic societies there is a tension between maximizing ballot access and minimizing voter fraud. Since the 2000 presidential election, this tension has been central to discussions about election reform, at the ...