The new Rasmussen Poll on voter ID opens with this tendentious lead-in: Despite his insistence that voter fraud is not a serious problem, Attorney General Eric Holder was embarrassed last week when a video surfaced of someone illegally obtaining a ballot to vote under Holder’s name in his home precinct in Washington, D.C. First, le’s [...]
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Another cool panel on election rules, procedures, and voter choice
One of our bloggers is on this panel as discussant. Andre Blais is principal investigator for “Making Electoral Democracy Work,” a very interesting sounding comparative elections project coming out of the Canadian research system. Finally, if memory serves (confirmed from his website), Garrett is one of Mike’s many successful graduate students. Aha! And Morgan is [...]
Strategic Voting and Election Laws
This panel looks cool! My students have been big fans of election rules, laws, and strategic voting. Chair(s): Ken Kollman, University of Michigan Paper(s): Voting Behavior in Dual Ballot Contests: The Case of French Presidential Elections Using survey data from French presidential elections, we examine the extent to which voters’ strategies differ in dual ballot [...]
Data ARE awesome, graphics maybe less so
Doug Chapin just doesn’t have enough snark. He rightly lauds the District of Columbia’s election office for making detailed early voting information easily accessible. But then he puts this put this graphic up front: Mike DeBonis? Ick! I guess it’s colorful! DeBonis did a nice job cranking out the figures, but he commits a [...]
New edition of California Journal of Politics and Policy, articles on election reform
I just got sent the new edition of the California Journal of Politics and Policy, and there are a number of excellent papers related to election reform. The articles all seem to be freely distributable as PDFs at this point. All articles are linked below. Introduction–Dedication to Tim Hodson Reforming California: Political Patchwork versus a [...]
Do clean elections produce extremists?
Nice paper being presented at next week’s Midwest Political Science Association meeting, and blogged by Seth Masket here: http://enikrising.blogspot.com/2012/04/imagine-no-campaign-donations-its-easy.html Michael Miller, his collaborator, has written about clean elections in the Election Law Journal.
Ballot problem in IL
This is not good: http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2012/03/20/election-snag-ballots-wont-fit-into-vote-counting-machines/
Elections, Representation, and Accountability
Doug Chapin says I am just an old crotchety guy. I’m old and I’m crotchety, but I don’t think I’m being unfair. I just get worried when something is oversold. Here’s what TurboVote promises: If voting were easier, more people would do it. And if more people voted, we could reinvigorate local and primary [...]
The Internet Isn’t All About Awesomeness
Doug Chapin pointed me to this event at SXSW: http://schedule.sxsw.com/2012/events/event_IAP10299. I’m sure my fellow commentators can chime in here, and they are not all dinosaurs like me and Charles (by the way my friend, your MIT page is way more awesome than your personal page!). The event, featuring two of the founders of TurboVote, asks “Why [...]
New look at earlyvoting.net
Thanks to James Hicks for migrating my website at http://www.earlyvoting.net. Relevant postings will continue to be cross posted here. The research is currently offline but will be updated sometime this week.