North Carolina Election Reform Ten Years After the Help America Vote Act

Kropf, Martha

doi:10.1089/elj.2013.1226

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“…In fact, jurisdictions are in the process of replacing antiquated voting equipment purchased in the wake of the 2000 election. In addition, election administrators may have to ramp up voting by mail due to the advent of the coronavirus in early 2020 (Persily and Stewart )—scholars do find that residual votes are higher among mailed ballots (Alvarez, Beckett, and Stewart ; Kropf ). Scholars did not anticipate how capacity might affect residual votes in early scholarship, but this research indicates that both voting equipment and managerial capacity influence election administration outcomes.…”

Section: Discussion Of Election Administration Policy and Practicementioning

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Making Every Vote Count: The Important Role of Managerial Capacity in Achieving Better Election Administration Outcomes

Kropf

Pope

Shepherd

et al. 2020

Public Administration Review

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A public agency's capacity to implement policy and achieve valued public outcomes has been a long‐running area of research in public administration. Many articles provide theory and empirics regarding the capacity to implement policy, but relatively few examine multiple types of agency capacity within the same analysis. This article develops a model based on the election administration literature in political science and public administration to examine the effects of managerial capacity, financial capacity, and technology on the election management outcome of the residual vote rate in North Carolina election jurisdictions. The results indicate that higher levels of management capacity and technology significantly reduce problems with voting as measured by the residual vote rate. Financial capacity shows a negative association with the residual vote rate but is not significant. The article concludes by discussing how studying election administration provides an important and uniquely good administrative context for developing administrative theory.

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Section: Discussion Of Election Administration Policy and Practicementioning

confidence: 99%