Administering Elections

Hale, Kathleen; Montjoy, Robert S.; Brown, Mitchell

doi:10.1057/9781137388452

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“…Since the adoption of the Help America Vote Act (HAVA) in 2002, statewide associations have proliferated in order to share information and expertise among local election officials (Hale & Slaton, 2008; Kimball et al, 2006; Hale et al, 2015). States vary in the level of oversight they exert over localities, especially in terms of mandated state audits or voter list maintenance trainings and have additionally attempted to minimize errors in voter records by allowing localities to operate electronic poll books to update the voter’s history.…”

Section: Voter List Maintenance and Local Election Administrationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“Our Voter Rolls Are Cleaner Than Yours”: Balancing Access and Integrity in Voter List Maintenance

Merivaki

2020

American Politics Research

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Accurate voter lists facilitate access to the electoral process, indicate efficient voter list maintenance, and reinforce electoral integrity. Errors in voter records often result from variation in practices that are difficult to avoid given the decentralized structure of election administration in the United States. In many states, localities lack capacity to efficiently complete voter list maintenance, especially when pressured to keep “clean” voter rolls. I argue that local challenges remain when maintaining voters’ registration and voting history information, which undermines the quality of voter lists and the integrity of the electoral process. I analyze Mississippi’s Statewide Election Management System (SEMS) records and find that voter registration and voting history errors are linked to the county’s active and inactive registered voter rates and demographic characteristics. These findings confirm that local variation in voter list maintenance can impact voters depending on their voter registration status and can result in premature voter list removal.

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Section: Voter List Maintenance and Local Election Administrationmentioning

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“Our Voter Rolls Are Cleaner Than Yours”: Balancing Access and Integrity in Voter List Maintenance

Merivaki

2020

American Politics Research

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“…For reasons to do with the mechanics of voting (see Hale et al 2015 ), this article will primarily cover only the elected presidents since 1901, 4 though the 1840 “Log Cabin Campaign” between William Henry Harrison and John Tyler represents something of a turning point in campaign tactics (Gunderson 1977 ). A rhetoric attack on Harrison by The Baltimore Republican greatly misjudged the public mood and seemed to denigrate the hardworking frontier community: “Give him a barrel of hard cider and a pension of two thousand a year, and… he will sit the remainder of his days in his log cabin” (as cited in Davies 2002 , p. 14).…”

Section: Human Branding In American Politicsmentioning

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Campaigning by Human Branding: Associating with American Presidents

Collins

2020

Fudan J. Hum. Soc. Sci.

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Human branding has become an essential issue in political marketing. It is exemplified in the election of American Presidents. This paper examines the American experience to suggest a typology of human branding that may apply in both presidential and other political systems. It examines examples of presidential human brands from George Washington on but, given significant changes to electoral procedures, concentrates on first-time successful presidential candidates since 1901. The fourfold typology offers an interrelated set of ideal types that will augment the analysis of human branding. It is applied to presidents when they take up office rather than after serving. The typology draws on the source of primary brand association and relation to the core political system of each politician.

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“…T he study of voting technology, ballots, and election administration, the subject of occasional work throughout the history of the disci-pline (Allen 1906;Harris 1929;Bain and Hecock 1957;Walker 1966;Taebel 1975), has again become a significant focus of political science research. Since the disputed 2000 presidential election, scholars have examined ballot layout, public opinion toward voting systems and the voting process, the usability of voting systems and their impact on voter errors, the effects of polling place arrangements and poll worker quality on the voting experience, the availability and impact of convenience voting, and numerous related topics (see Lausen 2007;Alvarez, Hall, and Llewellyn 2008;Birch 2008;Claassen 2008Claassen et al 2008Stein et al 2008;Meredith and Malhotra 2011;Pew 2012;Herrnson et al 2013;Burden et al 2014;Burden and Stewart 2014;Bowler et al 2015;Burden and Milyo 2015;Hale, Montjoy, and Brown 2015;King and Barnes 2019). However, relatively unstudied is why voting institutions and procedures differ across the states and the roles of political parties in establishing and perpetuating the practices that characterize the conduct of elections.…”

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The Enduring Effects of State Party Tradition on the Voting Experience

Goodliffe

Herrnson

Niemi

et al. 2020

Election Law Journal: Rules, Politics, and Policy

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The U.S. Constitution and historical practice leave election administration largely to the states, and state constitutions establish the institutional arrangements and processes that set the broad parameters for elections. However, political parties had a major role in filling in many of the details that have historically defined state elections. Party leaders initiated many of the laws and practices that characterized early elections and influenced the degree to which the states resisted impulses to reform elections. We theorize that a state's party traditions have an enduring impact on its electoral politics and contribute to variations in the experiences of contemporary voters. Using a new dataset, we examine the impact of state party traditions on the frequency of partisan as opposed to nonpartisan elections, the number of ballot propositions, ballot layout, the availability of convenience voting options, and other election features. We also assess the impact of state party traditions on voters' evaluations of their state's parties and elections. The results demonstrate that historical contours of a state's party system have had a substantial impact on election administration and voters' assessments of contemporary elections.

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Administering Elections

Cited by 44 publications

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“Our Voter Rolls Are Cleaner Than Yours”: Balancing Access and Integrity in Voter List Maintenance

“Our Voter Rolls Are Cleaner Than Yours”: Balancing Access and Integrity in Voter List Maintenance

Campaigning by Human Branding: Associating with American Presidents

The Enduring Effects of State Party Tradition on the Voting Experience

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