In the first issue of the new journal, Political Science Research and Methods, Ines Levin, Julia Pomares, Marcelo Leiras and I published a paper detailing some of the results from our research on electronic voting in Salta, Argentina. The paper is available for free downloading at the PSRM website. Here’s the abstract: Voting technologies frame [...]
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SCOTUS rules in Arizona Case
Yesterday, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down the first of two important voting rights decisions. In this first case, SCOTUS ruled that Arizona can’t require that those trying to register to vote in federal elections provide proof of citizenship. Despite the ruling, reports this morning indicate that election officials in Arizona are planning on continuing [...]
JETS — Call for Issue 2!
While the submission deadline for the first issue of JETS has passed (and that first issue is now forthcoming), note that the submission deadline for the second issue is rapidly approaching — August 6, 2013. For more information, see: https://www.usenix.org/jets/call-for-articles
VRS shows how we’ve changed how we vote
Mike has posted the news that the 2012 Voting and Registration Supplement (VRS) has just been released. This is good news for election geeks all over. One thing the VRS is indispensable for is helping track the evolution of the modes of voting throughout the country. Because there is no centralized voter registration database — [...]
2012 CPS Election report now available
The CPS has released the 2012 election report, from their 2012 Voting and Registration Supplement. The report can be obtained from this page. The report, “The Diversifying Electorate — Voting Rates by Race and Hispanic Origin in 2012 (and Other Recent Elections)”, looks like an interesting read. It also looks quite different in style and [...]
Evaluating Elections — highlighted in the NCSL’s “The Canvass”
Our recent book, “Evaluating Elections: A Handbook of Methods and Statistics” (written by Lonna Atkeson, Thad Hall, and myself), was the subject of an article in the current issue of The Canvass: States and Election Reform, from the NCSL. Here’s an excerpts from their interview with Thad: “We wrote this for a couple of audiences. [...]
Big Data in Political Science
Political Analysis (which I co-edit with fellow VTP-PI Jonathan Katz) just released a ten-article “virtual issue” on Big Data in Political Science. The ten article virtual issue is edited by Burt Monroe, and contains a number of important papers that will be of interest to Election Updates readers. The articles in the virtual issue are [...]
Herrnson, Claassen, Niemi and Patterson on voter satisfaction in JOP
Paul Herrnson, Ryan Claasen, Richard Niemi and Kelly Patterson have a new paper in the current issue of JOP, “Exceeding Expectations: Determinants of Satisfaction with the Voting Process in the 2008 U.S. Presidential Election.” Here’s the paper’s abstract: The 2000 U.S. presidential election resulted in states introducing new voting systems and election administration procedures. The [...]
JETS — A New Journal for Election Technology!
The USENIX Journal of Election Technology and Systems (JETS) is now accepting papers! Here’s the website for JETS. And here is the journal overview: In a number of countries, votes are counted and transported electronically, but there are numerous practical and policy implications of introducing electronic machines into the voting process. Both voting technology and [...]
Nate Silver on the use of statistics in the recent Supreme Court debates about the VRA
Nate Silver’s FiveThirtyEight column this morning has an interesting discussion of the use of statistics by Chief Justice Roberts in the recent debates about the VRA in the U.S. Supreme Court, “In Supreme Court Debate on Voting Rights Act, a Dubious Use of Statistics.”