The latest edition of Political Analysis just landed in my in-box, with an article by Bernd Beber and Alexandra Scacco entitled “What the Numbers Say: A Digit-Based Test for Election Fraud.” Here is the abstract: Is it possible to detect manipulation by looking only at electoral returns? Drawing on work in psychology, we exploit individuals’ [...]
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The NYT article on Fla. third party voter registration misses the big story
Today’s New York Times article on the effect of HB 1355 on the activity of third party voter registration groups misses the most important voter registration story in Florida. The more important story is the fact that voter registration from all sources has crashed, from the heights leading up to the elections of 2000 and [...]
Statement on dead voters in South Carolina
H/t to Sean Greene for pointing out this very excellent statement from the South Carolina election commission that provides a nice analysis of how charges of dead people voting come about.
Usability in Ohio — here we go again
H/t to Doug Chapin, for pointing out the usability problems associated with Cuyahoga County’s ballots. This is the first election for which bilingual ballots are being distributed countywide. One result is that statewide ballot questions have a long description in English, then a long description in Spanish. At the end of the English description, there [...]
How much time does asking for voter ID add to voting lines? Here’s one answer
H/t to Barry Burden for sending along this article from the CapTimes in Madison, about a mock election intended to gauge the bottlenecks caused by having to check voter ID’s. The bottom line: if local officials staff their polling places as before, the wait times grow substantially. With some additional help and thoughtfulness in deploying [...]
UOCAVA report and data released by the EAC
This just in: The EAC has released their biennial UOCAVA report, along with the raw data. Here is the link to the report page. Key to any type of management-by-the-data is simply knowing what your work flow is like. From a quick look at the tables in the back of the report, reporting of basic [...]
LA County “General Voting System Principles” released
Today, the Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk (RR/CC) released a set of General Voting System Principles, as part of its work through the Voting System Assessment Project (VSAP). Check out the press release and general background about the project here. The Voting Technology Project has assisted with VSAP, which has to be the most interesting, [...]
Symposium at MIT looks at the integrity of computer voting
This very nice editorial from Monday’s Keene Sentinel describes the upcoming VTP-sponsored symposium on election integrity. For more information on the event, visit this web site. If you’re coming, please register (it’s free!).
Serendipity strikes: Two great stories on one day
Rick Hasen’s indispensable Election Law blog provided a great juxtaposition of two stories yesterday that, when read in parallel, frame some very interesting issues about ensuring the integrity of elections. The first story is about how a group of researchers at Argonne National Labs used some cheap equipment to fashion a voting machine hack that [...]
VTP-sponsored event — Election Integrity: Past, Present, and Future
Just a reminder that in a week (from Saturday), the VTP will host an event entitled Election Integrity: Past, Present, and Future. Go to this link to find out more.