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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.

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Measuring Election Performance

Submitted by gbain on Mon, 02/01/2010 - 15:12.

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Working Paper No.:

94

Date Published:

12/11/2009

Author(s):

R. Michael Alvarez, Caltech

Introduction

The 2000 presidential election was one of the closest elections in American history. A margin of about 550,000 votes separated Al Gore from George Bush, only about 0.52% of votes cast. And despite the fact that Gore received more of the popular vote than Bush, after a contentious situation in Florida and a U.S. Supreme Court decision, Bush was the recipient of more Electoral College votes than Gore (271 to 266) and Bush became president.

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Making Voter Registration Easier: Evaluation of the "Welcome Kit" Voter Registration Pilot Project

Submitted by gbain on Mon, 02/08/2010 - 09:15.

Date Published:

01/22/2010

Author(s):

R. Michael Alvarez, Caltech

Thad E. Hall, University of Utah

Morgan H. Llewellyn, Institute for Advanced Studies, Lucca

The “Make Voter Registration Easier” (MVRE) pilot project, in the field from February 2008 through May 2009, provided voter registration forms in the “Welcome Kit” packages that were sent to households that changed their address in three postal markets: Columbus, Cleveland, and Cincinnati. The first two markets are exclusively in Ohio and the Cincinnati market includes households in Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana. This report provides a thorough quantitative and qualitative evaluation of this pilot project, with detailed analyses provided in subsequent chapters.

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