Survey shows that poll workers are motivated to serve more out of a sense of duty and for social benefits rather than for compensation. (Do not cite without authors' permission)
Magleby, David B., J. Quin Monson, and Kelly D. Patterson
Date:
2007
Various factors can affect voter confidence in the election system, including service received, experience with touchscreen equipment, and partisanship.
Initial analysis of the data collected shows that "age [of a poll worker] proves to be correlated with service time, and voting technology correlated with waiting times."
This study examines 2000 polling data and discovers that for the 2000 polls, placing the horse race question later in the survey (after "warm-up" questions) makes it less likely for voters to respond
Voter turnout has actually not been in decline. This misperception exists because ineligible voter population has increased more quickly than voter population.