Utah is creating a new cool check in process for voters. The State’s voter registration data base will be able to read the bar codes on a voter’s driver’s license. So when a voter goes to check in to vote, a poll worker will be able to scan the bar code on the [...]
The University of Connecticut’s Voting Technology Research Center has recently made available the results of their analysis of the State of Connecticut’s post-election audit of the November 2008 election. The report “Statistical Analysis of the Post Election Audit Data 2008 November Elections” is available here.
Here’s the report’s summary:
The University of Connecticut Voting [...]
My colleague, Peter Ordeshook, passed along to me this reference to a new research paper, “Democracy’s Achilles Heel or How to Win an Election without Really Trying”, by Paul Collier and Anke Hoeffler. Here is a summary of some of their results, from a briefing paper:
- Using dirty tactics during [...]
Doug Chapin of the Pew Center on the States sent me this story from Nebraska. Like yesterday’s posting of DiCamillo’s article, the Nebraska pieces notes the dramatically different turnout rates for low level contests (in this case, non candidate ballot measures) when using vote by mail.
Interestingly, the story tries to cite a quasi-experimental demonstration of [...]
Mark DiCamillo, director of the Field Poll, published a piece in Survey Impacts on the growth of permanent absentee balloting in California and how it has changed the composition of the California electorate.
He shows that nearly one-third of California’s registered voters now opt for permanent by-mail status, and the higher probability of turnout among this [...]
There has been a fairly active set of threads on Rick Hasen’s Election Law listserv about the newly released EAC reports on UOCAVA and the Election Day Survey (full disclosure: I worked as a subcontractor on both of those reports).
Ned Foley of the Moritz School at the Ohio State University expressed some concern about the [...]
Governor Christine Gregoire (WA) has publicly announced (as reported in this story) that she is meeting with SoS Sam Reed to figure out ways to speed up the reporting of election results in WA.
The current race that is causing controversy is the Seattle mayor’s race, which still has not been announced. King County is still [...]
I just came across a reference to the “Democracy Audits and Governmental Indicators” conference that is co-sponsored by the American Political Science Association and the Goldman School at Berkeley. This came across the search results as I was probing around, looking at other implementations (planned or otherwise) of the Democracy Index idea (this search itself [...]
The full report and the data are here:
http://www.eac.gov/program-areas/research-resources-and-reports/completed-research-and-reports/election-day-survey-results
Here is the URL.