Voter Confidence and the Election-Day Voting Experience

Claassen, Ryan L.; Magleby, David B.; Monson, J. Quin; Patterson, Kelly D.

doi:10.1007/s11109-012-9202-4

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“…Specifically, Stewart concludes that DRE machines had a stronger negative effect on voters' trust in the vote count than optical scanners, highlighting the fact that specific characteristics and types of electronic voting systems may influence citizens' trust in the electoral process. This finding is in line with the broader literature indicating that different voting technologies have different effects on voters' attitudes and electoral behavior (Herrnson et al 2008;Everett et al 2008;Claassen et al forthcoming).…”

Section: Previous Research and Hypothesessupporting

confidence: 90%

Voting Made Safe and Easy: The Impact of e-voting on Citizen Perceptions

Alvarez

Levin

Pomares³

et al. 2013

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Voting technologies frame the voting experience. Different ways of presenting information to voters, registering voter choices and counting ballots may change the voting experience and cause individuals to re-evaluate the legitimacy of the electoral process. Yet few field experiments have evaluated how voting technologies affect the voting experience. This article uses unique data from a recent e-voting field experiment in Salta, Argentina to study these questions. It employs propensity-score matching methods to measure the causal effect of replacing traditional voting technology with e-voting on the voting experience. The study's main finding is that while e-voters perceive the new technology as easier to use and more likely to register votes as intended—and support replacing traditional voting technologies with e-voting—the new technologies also raise some concerns about ballot secrecy.

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Section: Previous Research and Hypothesessupporting

confidence: 90%

Voting Made Safe and Easy: The Impact of e-voting on Citizen Perceptions

Alvarez

Levin

Pomares³

et al. 2013

PSRM

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“…The quality of poll workers coupled with the ease or difficulty of recruitment has the potential to affect the experiences of voters (Claassen et al., ; Hall, Monson, and Patterston, , ). Machine type, machine usability, prior knowledge of the voting machine system (Claassen et al., ), and the location of polling places (Stein and Honahme, ) have also been shown to affect voter confidence. Utilizing exit polls, Classeen et al.…”

Section: Precincts and Poll Workersmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…(), for example, find that long wait times, confusing voting equipment instructions, privacy while voting, and failure to check voter ID result in lower evaluations of poll workers. Additionally, voters report being more confident that an election will produce a fair outcome not only when they have fewer negative experiences on Election Day, but also when they are able to vote on direct recording electronic (DRE) as opposed to optical scan voting machines (Claassen et al., ) . Lastly, voters who are able to vote at more than one location report more favorable evaluations (Stein and Honahme, ).…”

Section: Precincts and Poll Workersmentioning

confidence: 99%

Policy and Precinct: Citizen Evaluations and Electoral Confidence*

King

2016

Social Science Quarterly

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Objective The objective of this research is to evaluate the role of state policy and election precinct evaluations on citizen confidence in individual and nationwide electoral outcomes. Methods Utilizing the 2012 Survey and Performance of American Elections (SPAE) and data from the National Conference of State Legislatures, a series of ordered logistic regression models and probability estimates are presented. Results Evaluations of voting precincts, specifically poll workers, polling locations, and voting machines have an effect on electoral confidence. Confidence, however, is not consistent. Racial identification and partisan affiliation continue to shape citizen confidence in American elections. Voter identification requirements, outside of racial considerations, do not affect confidence in individual or nationwide ballot outcomes. Conclusions The administration of American elections effects citizen confidence in electoral outcomes. Reforms in this area have the capacity to improve citizen confidence, trust, and potentially political participation.

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“…Voters’ views of poll workers are, in turn, tied to their assessments of whether the electoral process is fair and reliable (Burden and Milyo ; Claassen et al. , ; Hall, Monson, and Patterson ). Given their importance in shaping voter perceptions of democratic legitimacy, recent research explores poll workers’ views of their training and workplace problems (Hall, Monson, and Patterson , 2008).…”

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confidence: 99%

What Happens at the Polling Place: Using Administrative Data to Look Inside Elections

Burden

Canon

Mayer

et al. 2016

Public Administration Review

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Tremendous attention has been paid to local election administration since the 2000 presidential election meltdown, yet policy makers still lack basic information about what happens at the polling place. One strategy to understand the interactions between citizens and street‐level election bureaucrats is to turn to administrative data. Using logs collected by polling place workers, the authors analyze more than 66,000 individual incidents recorded from four different statewide elections. Such data provide novel insights and guidance for the administration of elections. Findings indicate that task scale (in terms of the number of ballots) and complexity (in terms of absentee ballots) increase the incident rate. Managerial choices about how polling places are run also matter: the use of electronic voting machines and central count processing of ballots reduce the incident rate, while splitting poll worker shifts increases it. Operator capacity, measured in terms of experience, also reduces the number of incidents.

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Voter Confidence and the Election-Day Voting Experience

Cited by 47 publications

References 26 publications

Voting Made Safe and Easy: The Impact of e-voting on Citizen Perceptions

Voting Made Safe and Easy: The Impact of e-voting on Citizen Perceptions

Policy and Precinct: Citizen Evaluations and Electoral Confidence*

What Happens at the Polling Place: Using Administrative Data to Look Inside Elections

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