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The Help America Vote Act and other legislation required that local election agencies throughout the United States upgrade voting equipment and consequently implement new technology at the polling place. Funding was made available to purchase new equipment and for the training of the people who administer the elections on the street level, poll workers. This paper looks at the implementation challenges of moving from a hand-counted or mechanical system to one that employs a variety of electronic technology. For some participants in the process, this is like moving from a Locomotive to the Bullet Train in six years or less. We analyze a survey of poll workers and find large variations in how well prepared they felt to operate machines and assist voters, across technologies. Our preliminary findings illuminate inequities at the polling places, raise questions about the one person, one vote principle, and point to issues of possible vote dilution. |
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Name: Midwest Political Science Association
URL: http://www.indiana.edu/~mpsa/
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| Mac Donald, Karin. and Glaser, Bonnie. "Wagon Train to Bullet Train: Street-Level Implementation of E-Voting" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Palmer House Hotel, Chicago, IL, Apr 12, 2007 <Not Available>. 2009-05-24 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p199096_index.html> |
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| Mac Donald, K. and Glaser, B. E. , 2007-04-12 "Wagon Train to Bullet Train: Street-Level Implementation of E-Voting" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Palmer House Hotel, Chicago, IL Online <APPLICATION/PDF>. 2009-05-24 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p199096_index.html |
Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: The Help America Vote Act and other legislation required that local election agencies throughout the United States upgrade voting equipment and consequently implement new technology at the polling place. Funding was made available to purchase new equipment and for the training of the people who administer the elections on the street level, poll workers. This paper looks at the implementation challenges of moving from a hand-counted or mechanical system to one that employs a variety of electronic technology. For some participants in the process, this is like moving from a Locomotive to the Bullet Train in six years or less. We analyze a survey of poll workers and find large variations in how well prepared they felt to operate machines and assist voters, across technologies. Our preliminary findings illuminate inequities at the polling places, raise questions about the one person, one vote principle, and point to issues of possible vote dilution. |
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| From Locomotive to Bullet Train: Street-Level Implementation of E-Voting Karin Mac Donald & Bonnie E. Glaser Election Administration Research Center University of California Berkeley Prepared for the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association Chicago Illinois April 12-15 2007 DRAFT – Please do not cite or quote without permission of authors! Abstract: The Help America Vote Act and other legislation required that local election agencies throughout the United States upgrade voting equipment and consequently implement new technology at |
| is mandatory sometimes encouraged for others it is discouraged and for some it is non- existent. In short what we know from this paper is that there are wide variations in the comfort levels of poll workers with the different technologies. What we seek to discover in the future is whether some technologies are inherently more difficult to work with if the training is inadequate or whether when we control for the back grounds of the poll workers we |
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