Browsing Voting Technology Project by Author "Atkeson, Lonna Rae"
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Auditing the Election Ecosystem
Alvarez, R. Michael; Atkeson, Lonna Rae; Hall, Thad E. (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
Alvarez, R. Michael; Atkeson, Lonna Rae; Hall, Thad E.; Sinclair, J. Andrew (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
Atkeson, Lonna Rae; Bryant, Lisa A.; Hall, Thad E.; Saunders, Kyle L.; Alvarez, R. Michael (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 ... -
Voter Confidence in 2010: Voter Identification, Perceptions of Fraud, Winning and Losing and the Voter Experience
Atkeson, Lonna Rae (Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2011-04-17)Over the last decade, scholars of American politics have invested research time and effort into the study of election administration and election performance. These include studies onresidual vote analysis (Wand et al 2001; ...