Archive for 2015
Back in the Game: Newly-Reconstituted EAC Holds First Meeting
The EAC held its first meeting in four years yesterday – electing officers and doing some crucial business on voting system testing and certification. It’s a promising start and hopefully it bodes well for the agency’s future.
Read MoreHeather Gerken on a Federal Right To Vote: "Not Worth the Candle"
The idea of a federal constitutional right to vote is once again gathering steam, but Yale Law School’s Heather Gerken notes in a new paper that such a right would likely be even more difficult to enforce than it would be to enact.
Read MoreNate Silver's Concept of "Rich Data" – and Why We're Not There (Yet) in Elections
FiveThirtyEight’s Nate Silver discusses why “sports nerds” are lucky to have so much high-quality “rich data” to analyze … which contrasts with what’s available to election geeks but offers the promise of a way forward.
Read More"Hiding in Plain Sight": Charles Stewart on Voter Experiences in the 2014 SPAE
MIT’s Charles Stewart describes the latest version of his Survey of the Performance of American Elections – an invaluable lens on voter experience across the nation.
Read MoreOld Home Week (Or, Staying Tuned): Catching Up on Recent Blog Subjects
Today’s news roundup includes updates on a number of recent blog subjects, including trouble in Hartford, voter ID in Nebraska, frustration in Mineral County and potential Congressional action on the state/federal proof-of-citizenship fight.
Read More45 Means 45: Federal Court Says Alabama Runoffs Don't Comply with MOVE Act
A federal appeals court ruled that Alabama’s runoff law – which provides for an election 42 days after the primary – violates the MOVE Act’s requirement of 45 days for military and overseas voters.
Read MoreFessler's Latest: Voting Technology Market is "All Over the Place"
NPR’s Pam Fessler has another terrific story focusing on the choices election officials face – and the challenges those choices pose for vendors – as they consider acquiring new voting technology in the current buyers’ (actually “just looking”) market.
Read MoreHe's Baaaaack! Brian Newby "Muses" on Potential Election Changes
Johnson County’s Brian Newby is back with a new ElectionDiary post that muses on several proposed changes to elections in Kansas. He makes important observations about the need to think carefully about these changes, but notes he’ll make do regardless.
Read MoreCharles Stewart's First 2014 Survey Data Shows Continued Drift Away From "Election Day"
New 2014 data from Charles Stewart’s Survey of the Performance of American Elections is out, and it provides support for anecdotal evidence of voters’ continued embrace of alternatives to the traditional Election Day polling place.
Read MoreYou're Fired! Hamilton County Dismisses Pollworkers for Non-Voting, Poor Performance
Hamilton County, Ohio recently fired more than 100 pollworkers for poor performance in 2014 – with the vast majority dismissed for failing to cast a ballot of their own.
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