I like the story but I don’t like the metaphor used in this week’s Electionline. Mindy Moretti writes: Like alcohol during prohibition, it turns out that many Ohio voters actually liked many of the elections procedures recently banned by the state legislature. The point is well-taken; the Ohio Legislature eliminated times and places for voting [...]
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EAC’s 2010 Statutory Overview Report Est Arrive
The EAC has just posted its biennial statutory overview report, conducted as part of their 2010 Election Administration and Voting Survey. I haven’t delved into the details, but I’m sure I will, as will many others, in the coming weeks and months. Click here for a pdf version of the report.
Santa Fe County Clerk’s Office Does Focus Group with Presiding Judges
Denise Lamb, the Deputy County Clerk in Santa Fe County, contacted me to share the results of a couple of focus groups her staff ran after the recent election with poll judges. In late April, her election coordinator, Pat Hummer, hosted two focus groups for presiding judges to, “find out their thoughts about how we [...]
Preview: Upcoming June local elections in Moldova
The needs assessment report for 5 June 2011 local elections in Moldova has been issued by OSCE / ODIHR (http://www.osce.org/odihr/76447) and the call for LTO’s has appeared at PAE-REACT (http://www.paegroup.com/career-react-opportunities). There are no short term observers for this mission.
Turkish election preview
The OSCE/ODIHR’s Needs Assessment Mission (NAM) has issued a report in anticipation of the upcoming parliamentary elections, to be held on June 12, 2011. The full text of the report is available at http://www.osce.org/odihr/76837, but I thought a few features might spark the interest of our readers. Most importantly, Turkish law has been changed so [...]
EAC Commissioner Gracia Hillman has resigned
Commissioner Hillman’s impressive record of public service is detailed here. She was confirmed on December 9, 2003, to a two-year term that became seven. Can Congress actually confirm a successor? This puts the ball squarely in their court. Tom Hicks’s appointment has been languishing for eight months.
Chapin and Gronke on slow election counts
From this month’s Canvass. By the way, this mark’s Wendy Underhill’s first issue of Canvass at NCSL. Best of luck to Wendy!
DC learns about the week-long “election day”
This story in the Post is not a surprise to anyone who follows early voting. All I can say to the Fenty and Gray forces is that early voting, in as much as we can generalize from other races in other states and localities, is more likely to reshuffle the electorate than change the electorate. The [...]
The Long Count in Oz
Paul Gronke and James Hicks Early Voting Information Center August 26, 2010 Crossposted at earlyvoting.net I spent the end of last week in Bellingham, WA (a wonderful city by the way–but keep it a secret!) and experienced the impact of a “slow count” firsthand. At least in Washington, the vote totals are updated daily, and [...]
Survey on the Performance of American Elections Data Available
As part of my pre-Thanksgiving clean-up, I have finally gotten around to posting the data sets and documentation for three surveys my colleagues and I did in 2007 and 2008 to gauge the quality of American elections. The studies were funded by Pew, as part of their Make Voting Work Initiative, along with the late, [...]