About the Voting Technology Project

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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.

Voter Opinions about Election Reform: Do They Support Making Voting More Convenient?

Submitted by gbain on Thu, 07/15/2010 - 13:35.
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Working Paper No.: 
98
Date Published: 
07/14/2010
Author(s): 
R. Michael Alvarez, Caltech
Ines Levin, Caltech, Thad E. Hall, University of Utah
Charles Stewart III, MIT

We study public opinions about convenience voting reforms, using a unique state-by-state survey conducted in the 2008 presidential election. Our analysis of the American voting public’s support for potential convenience voting reforms provides a variety of important insights into the potential direction of innovations in the electoral process in the near future. First, we find that the most prominent convenience voting reforms have mixed support. These include attitudes toward automatic voter registration, Election Day voter registration, and moving Election Day to

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