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    • Report on Provisional Ballots and American Elections 

      Shaw, Daron; Hutchings, Vincent (Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2013-06-21)
      Both empirical and anecdotal data indicate that the use of provisional ballots in U.S. elections is a mixed bag. On the one hand, providing voters whose eligibility is unclear with an opportunity to cast a provisional ...

    • Administration of Absentee Ballot Programs 

      Burden, Barry C. (Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2013-07-15)
      1. Americans cast their ballots in three main ways: at a traditional neighborhood polling place on election day; early, in person at a government office or voting center; and absentee, which is usually submitted early by ...

    • the Recruitment and Training of Poll Workers: What We Know from Scholarly Research 

      Burden, Barry C.; Milyo, Jeffrey (Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2013-09-06)
      In every election an army of temporary poll workers must be recruited and trained to both assist the public in exercising the right to vote and to enforce the rules governing the voting process. These poll workers are ...