Browsing Voting Technology Project by Author "Ansolabehere, Stephen"
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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 ... -
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 ... -
Database for Voting Technology Report
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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 ... -
The Introduction of Voter Registration and Its Effect on Turnout
(Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2004-02)Voter registration, it is widely argued, raises the costs of voting, thereby decreasing turnout. Studies of turnout across states find that states with later registration dates or election day registration have much higher ... -
Is There Racial Discrimination at the Polls? Voters' Experience in the 2008 Election
(Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2009-03)In 1965, the United States Congress enacted the Voting Rights Act to end discrimination against black voters at the polls in Southern states and throughout the nation. The Act prohibited the use of “tests” and other devices ... -
Residual Votes Attributable to Technology: An Assessment of the Reliability of Existing Voting Equipment
(Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2001-03-30)American elections are conducted using a hodge-podge of different voting technologies: paper ballots, lever machines, punch cards, optically scanned ballots, and electronic machines. And the technologies we use change ... -
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 ... -
Using Recounts to Measure the Accuracy of Vote Tabulations: Evidence from New Hampshire Elections 1946-2002
(Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2004-01)The 2000 presidential election exposed a surprisingly high level of inaccuracy in the tabulation of ballots. Differences between total vallots cast and votes counted were as high as 19 percent in some counties in Florida, ... -
"Voting Technology and Uncounted Votes in the United States"
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Voting Technology Summary and Report Working Papers
(2004-08-20)
