Early Voting

Why Everything That Can Go Wrong Often Does: An Analysis of Election Administration Problems

Working Paper No.: 
10
Date Published: 
01/01/2009
Author(s): 
Thad E. Hall, The Century Foundation
R. Michael Alvarez, Caltech

Before the 2000 presidential election, few citizens in the United States paid much attention to election administration. But scholars have noted that election administration has been a problem for decades. Despite the attention paid to election administration in the research literature, most public policy efforts in since 2000 have been focused on purchasing new voting equipment and fixing problematic procedures, and not on resolving some of the underlying problems in the process of conducting elections in America.

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