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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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The Human Dimension of Elections: How Poll Workers Shape Public Confidence in Elections

Submitted by gbain on Wed, 11/18/2009 - 07:57.

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Working Paper No.:

90

Date Published:

09/01/2009

Author(s):

Thad E. Hall, University of Utah

J. Quin Monson, Brigham Young University

Kelly D. Patterson, Brigham Young University

This article examines the role that poll workers play in the perceptions that voters have about the overall quality of elections and democracy more generally. Although the 2000 election opened up a wideranging examination of the electoral process in the United States, there has been little consideration given to the role of administration and management in the electoral process and in confidence in election outcomes (cf. Hall 2003; Alvarez and Hall 2006).

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Assessing the Impact of E-Voting Technologies on Electoral Outcomes: an Analysis of Buenos Aires' 2005 Congressional Election

Submitted by gbain on Wed, 11/18/2009 - 08:31.

Working Paper No.:

91

Date Published:

08/10/2009

Author(s):

Gabriel Katz, Caltech, R. Michael Alvarez, Caltech

Ernesto Calvo, University of Houston

Marcelo Escolar, Universidad de Buenos Aires

Julia Pomares, London School of Economics

Abstract: Using data from an e-voting experiment conducted in the 2005 Congressional Election in Argentina, we estimate the effect of different e-voting technologies on the likelihood that citizens cast their vote for different parties for the National Congress and the Legislature of Buenos Aires.

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