Browsing Department of Political Science by Author "Alvarez, R. Michael"
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2007 Survey of the Performance of American Elections
(2009-11-25)The 2007 Survey of the Performance of American Elections studied experiences with election administration during the 2007 gubernatorial elections in Kentucky, Louisiana, and Mississippi. This study was a pilot for the ... -
2008 Survey of the Performance of American Elections --- SPSS Data File
(2009-11-25)The 2008 Survey of the Performance of American Elections is the first state-by-state study of the quality of the election experience in the U.S. The questionnaire asks a series of questions about the experience voters had ... -
American Elections: A Critical Moment for Research and Reform
(Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2004-12-03)The 2004 election provided important lessons regarding the performance of voting technology, about continuing problems with voter registration and provisional balloting, issues with procedures and poll site voting practices, ... -
Are Americans Confident Their Ballots Are Counted?
(Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2006-07-17)Expanding the large literature which investigates the characteristics of citizen and voter trust in government we analyze the heretofore neglected topic of voter trust in the electoral process. In this paper, we present ... -
Assessing the Impact of E-Voting Technologies on Electoral Outcomes: an Analysis of Buenos Aires' 2005 Congressional Election
(Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2009-08-10)Using data from an e-voting experiment conducted in the 2005 Congressional Election in Argentina, we estimate the effect of different e-voting technologies on the likelihood that citizens cast their vote for different ... -
Assessing the impact of voting technologies on multi-party electoral outcomes: the case of Buenos Aires’ 2005 Congressional Election
(Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2008-04)This paper presents the first study on the impact of different voting technologies on election outcomes in multi-party elections, analyzing data from a large-scale voting experiment conducted in the 2005 congressional ... -
Assessing voters' attitudes towards electronic voting in Latin America: Evidence from Colombia's 2007 e-voting pilot
(Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2009-09)Electronic voting could increase citizens' electoral participation and trust in countries characterized by fragile democratic institutions and public discredit of the political system such as those in Latin America. This ... -
Auditing the Election Ecosystem
(Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2009-08-10)Election administration is a highly complex process that involves multiple actors all working to achieve the goal of running an effective election. One critical technique for gathering the performance data needed to improve ... -
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 ... -
Ballot Design Options
(Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2002-02-17)Does ballot design “matter”? Does the design of ballots influence how voters cast their ballots, and thereby affect the outcome of an election? -
Building Secure and Transparent Elections Through Standard Operating Procedures
(Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2008-05)Election reform has evolved since the 2000 election. One issue that has remained at the forefront of public debate is how to build confidence in the election process. The foundation for confidence is based on procedures ... -
The Complexity of the California Recall Election
(Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2003-11-06)The October 7, 2003 California Recall Election strained California’s direct democracy. In recent California politics there has not been a statewide election conducted on such short notice; county election officials were ... -
Detecting Voter Fraud in an Electronic Voting Context An Analysis of the Unlimited Reelection Vote in Venezuela
(Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2009-06-23)Between December 2007 and February 2009, Venezuelans participated twice in constitutional referenda where the elimination of presidential term limits was one of the most salient proposals. Assuming voter preferences did ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Electoral Context and Voter Confidence: How The Context of an Election Shapes Voter Confidence in the Process
(Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2009-04)A number of recent studies examine how confident voters are that their ballots are counted as intended in U.S. federal elections from 2000 to 2004. One consistent finding of these studies is that, relative to Democrats, ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
February 2008 Survey of the Performance of American Elections
(2009-11-25)The February 2008 Survey of the Performance of American Elections studied experiences with election administration during the "Super Tuesday" presidential primary in 2008. The survey covered the 15 states that held primaries ... -
Flooding The Vote: Hurricane Katrina and Voter Participation in New Orleans
(Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2008-11-10)The flooding of New Orleans from Hurricane Katrina resulted in a massive and rapid exodus of individuals from New Orleans to locations around the United States. In the midst of the hurricane recovery, the City of New Orleans ...
