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Broken Ballots: Will Your Vote Count

Submitted by gbain on Tue, 05/01/2012 - 15:18.

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Broken Ballots: Will Your Vote Count - at MIT - Monday, 5/7 at 5 p.m. in 32-141

Extra information: the location is 32 Vassar Street, room 32-141, 1st floor of
the strange looking Frank Gehry Stata Building which will be unlocked.

Parking on the nearby streets is metered until 6 p.m. (25 cents per 15 minutes).
There are a number of local parking garages. Any MIT ungated lot is available
for free parking after 5 p.m. (technically).

RSVP-ing is appreciated but not required.

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phone: 617 253-6098

Broken Ballots -- Will Your Vote Count?

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About the Voting Technology Project

Submitted by admin on Fri, 06/06/2008 - 13:41.

Established by Caltech President David Baltimore and MIT President Charles Vest in December 2000 to prevent a recurrence of the problems that threatened the 2000 U.S. Presidential Election. Since establishment, members of the VTP have studied all aspects of the election process, both in the United States and abroad. VTP faculty, research affiliates, and students have written many working papers, published scores of academic articles and books, and worked on a great array of specific projects.

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The Impact of New Technologies on Voter Confidence in Latin America: Evidence from E-voting Experiments in Argentina

Submitted by gbain on Tue, 02/15/2011 - 12:42.

Author(s):

R. Michael Alvarez, Caltech

Gabriel Katz, IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca

Julia Pomares, London School of Economics and Political Science

Journal:

Journal of Information, Technology and Politics

pp:

1

Date Published:

02/12/2011

We analyze trust in electronic voting in Latin America using data from two field experiments conducted in Argentina and Colombia. We find that voters generally exhibit high levels of confidence in e-voting, although this depends on individual characteristics such as age and education as well as on the particular type of technology used. We contrast our findings with those from industrialized democracies and show that conclusions derived from American and European e-voting experiences cannot be directly extrapolated to the Latin American context.

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