Publications and Working Papers: Recent submissions

Now showing items 43-45 of 123

    • Resolving Voter Registration Problems: Making Registration Easier, Less Costly and More Accurate 

      Alvarez, R. Michael; Hall, Thad E. (Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2009-08)
      The practice of voter registration has a long history in the United States. In 1800, Massachusetts was the first state to impose a voter registration requirement. By Reconstruction, voter registration was used in a handful ...

    • 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 ...

    • Interstate Voter Registration Database Matching: The Oregon-Washington 2008 Pilot Project 

      Alvarez, R. Michael; Jonas, Jeff; Winkler, William E.; Wright, Rebecca N. (Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2009-08-10)
      Voter registration databases maintain lists of registered voters that are used to determine who is and is not eligible to vote in an election. As such, accurate voter registration databases form a cornerstone of the electoral ...