Boston Area Colleges Election Project

Demonstrates that question wording designed to correct for social desirablility overreporting and misremembrance overreporting can reduce overrerporting in general.

Election reforms facilitating voting have, perversely, caused even less participation by voters with certain demographics and by the low-income voting population.

Giving voters secret ballots in exit-polling leads to higher response rates and more accurate results than doing face-to-face interviews

Black candidates David Dinkins and Douglas Wilder did better in the polls than in the actual returns in the 1989 elections, similar to Tom Bradley's experience in the California race for governor in 1

Examines Boston's increase in immigrant population in recent years.

Examines Boston's immigrant population and takes a look at Boston demographics. Includes maps on foreign language residents and racial concentrations by community.

Overreporting in the NES has gotten progressively worse as a result of the sample being over saturated with self-reported voters

To be accurate, exit polls need to be conducted throughout election day. Different groups vote at different times of day.

From abstract: Voter's feelings about poll workers appear responsive to wait times, feelings of privacy while voting, poll worker training, and special poll worker recruiting efforts.

Regardless of whether an exit poll project is successful (i.e.