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Archive for June 2014

No Small Stuff: "Chain of Events" Results in Ann Arbor Candidate Being Left Off Ballot

By Doug Chapin | June 30, 2014

Ann Arbor, MI is scrambling to fix hundreds of incorrect absentee ballots that omitted a candidate’s name. How that happened, and who contributed to the error, is a cautionary tale for election officials nationwide.

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Lexington County Warns Voters, Policymakers: Long Ballots = Long Waits

By Doug Chapin | June 27, 2014

Lexington County, SC election officials are warning that a lengthy tax question could lead to a 20-page ballot this fall – which will inevitably result in long lines and frustration at the polls.

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Heather Gerken on the Voting Rights Act Amendment: The Role of Bargaining

By Doug Chapin | June 26, 2014

Heather Gerken’s new look at the Voting Rights Act Amendment examines how a new bill might encourage the kind of bargaining between local governments and voters that works well in other contexts.

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Meditations on an (Unusual) Runoff Ballot in Richland County

By Doug Chapin | June 25, 2014

An Richland County ballot that qualifies as “news of the weird” is an opportunity for a handful of observations on the field of election administration, social media and the value of public confidence.

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NCSL Releases Election Administration Research Database

By Doug Chapin | June 24, 2014

The National Conference of State Legislatures has released a new Pew-funded database intended to help policymakers and others get comprehensive and up-to-date information about election administration policy nationwide.

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David Kimball on Absentee Voting in Missouri: "Hamsterdam"

By Doug Chapin | June 23, 2014

David Kimball of the University of Missouri-St. Louis dips into The Wire for an analogy that explains the growing popularity of absentee ballots in Missouri – an observation that has validity outside of the Show Me State.

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Rhode Island Poised to Eliminate Straight-Ticket Voting

By Doug Chapin | June 20, 2014

Rhode Island is poised to eliminate the “master lever” straight-party voting option after large (but not unanimous) majorities in both houses of the Legislature. If it becomes law, it will create new challenges for election officials and voters alike.

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This Week in "Change Ain't Easy": South Dakota Vote Centers

By Doug Chapin | June 19, 2014

South Dakota’s adoption of vote centers is slowing somewhat because of concerns about cost, technology and staffing at the county level – an increasingly familiar story as the field of elections grapples with a desire to change how Americans vote.

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Minnesota Debuts Online Absentee Ballot Request Tool

By Doug Chapin | June 18, 2014

Minnesota is launching a new online tool for voters to request and track absentee ballots; this new capability – plus a switch to no-excuse absentee ballots – is bound to have a significant effect on voting (and vote-counting) in the North Star State.

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Economies of Small-Scale: Vote-by-Mail and High Turnout in Alpine County, CA

By Doug Chapin | June 17, 2014

Alpine County, CA – which has fewer voters than thousands of precincts nationwide – combines vote-by-mail and a small-town sense of civic engagement to create turnout levels their larger neighbors must envy.

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