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Despite the Fanfare, Little Proof of Election Irregularities

Submitted by gbain on Fri, 11/11/2011 - 14:07.
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Link to Article: 
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/11/us/despite-the-fanfare-little-proof-of-election-irregularities.html?_r=1
Newspaper: 
The New York Times
Date Published: 
11/10/2011
Author(s): 
Scott James, The Bay Citize4n
Article

Controversy over voting rules and security

Submitted by gbain on Fri, 11/11/2011 - 14:02.
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Link to Article: 
http://newsroom.blogs.cnn.com/2011/11/10/controversy-over-voting-rules-and-security/
Newspaper: 
CNN
Date Published: 
11/10/2011
Author(s): 
Dave Schechter, Senior National Editor for CNN
Article

About a year from now, Americans will cast votes for the candidates of their choice.

Or at least they will think that’s what they’ve done, having little awareness of concerns about the security of electronic voting machines, a “national security issue” in the view of scientists who easily hacked a widely-used device.

Augmenting Voting Interfaces to Improve Accessibility and Performance

Submitted by admin on Thu, 06/26/2008 - 11:52.
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Date Published: 
01/01/2009
Author(s): 
Jonathan A. Goler
Ted Selker
Lorin F. Wilde

Reading disabled (RD) voters represent approximately 1 in 7 voters. Current electronic voting technologies exhibit substantially different error rates between RD voters and non-RD voters. These error rates are not consistent. For example, full-faced voting systems are better suited for RD individuals, while page-by-page systems are better for non-RD voters. We seek to analyze the differences in the voter’s performance in order to build interfaces that reduce mistakes and errors for both RD and non-RD voters.

Study Shows Ballot Design and Voter Preparation Could Have Eliminated Sarasota Florida Voting Errors

Submitted by admin on Fri, 06/20/2008 - 15:32.
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Working Paper No.: 
61
Date Published: 
01/01/2009
Author(s): 
Ted Selker

No abstract available.

The Perverse Consequences of Electoral Reform in the United States

Submitted by admin on Thu, 06/12/2008 - 12:46.
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Author(s): 
Adam Berinsky
Journal: 
American Politics Research
pp: 
471-491
Date Published: 
01/01/2009

A number of electoral reforms have been enacted in the United States in the past three decades that are designed to increase turnout by easing restrictions on the casting of ballots. Both proponents and opponents of electoral reforms agree that these reforms should increase the demographic representativeness of the electorate by reducing the direct costs of voting, thereby increasing turnout among less-privileges groups who, presumably, are most sensitive to the costs of coming to the polls.

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