Boston Area Colleges Election Project

Looks at a few examples where race has swung an election and discusses playing on race to win elections.

Discusses the networks' move to jointly hire the same exit polls for election projections.

Issue labeling and enhancement can have a substantial effect on public support for some issues. In other words, question wording and word choice have a directional effect.

Black candidates David Dinkins and Douglas Wilder did better in the polls than in the actual returns in the 1989 elections.

The race of an interviewer has an effect on the response, depending on the race of the respondent and the type of question asked.

If our poll workers aren't trained properly, then the technology used will not matter. Reviews election day experiences in Boston and in Reno, NV.

This Report's authors state that although Massachusetts has long prided itself on its smooth running of elections, it needs to reform it's election system in certain ways.

Research shows that blacks cast invalid votes at a higher rate than whites. Some machines drastically reduce this gap.

Concludes that the 1989 Virginia gubernatorial race exit poll was wrong because it used face-to-face interviews.

According to this report, Boston and it's surrounding townships have municipal governments where the number of appointed and elected officials are disproportionately caucasian when compared with the p