Helping America Vote? Election administration, partisanship, and provisional voting in the 2004 election. | Boston Area Colleges Election Project

Helping America Vote? Election administration, partisanship, and provisional voting in the 2004 election.

Author:

Kimball, David C., Martha Kropf, and Lindsay Battles

Volume, Number & Page:

0.51875

Publication Info:

Election Law Journal

Date:

2006

From abstract: "We find suggestive evidence of partisanship in the selection of state rules governing the counting of provisional ballots. We also find conditional partisan effects in the casting and counting of provisional ballots. In 2004, provisional ballots were more likely to be cast and counted in heavily partisan jurisdictions administered by an election authority of the same party. Additionally, other state-level administrative features...strongly affected provisional voting in 2004.

Difficulty Level:

2

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