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III. Research and Report Summaries

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Voting System Scorecard: Are States Serving the Rising Electorate? – Rock the Vote, June 2011: Rock the Vote evaluated state election laws and practices to assess how well states are serving young voters in three broad categories: voter registration, casting a ballot, and young voter preparation.

Bubble Trouble: Off-Line De-Anonymization of Bubble Forms - Joseph A. Calandrino, William Clarkson and Edward W. Felten, Department of Computer Science, Princeton University, June 2011: The researchers examine fill-in-the-bubble forms used for surveys, election ballots, and standardized tests. They find that the bubble markings do not necessarily keep the user’s identity anonymous, noting this leaves the secrecy of some election ballots susceptible to attack. Ways to mitigate these threats are discussed and future research is suggested.

electionlineWeekly

May 23, 2013

San Francisco’s voter guide is one for the books
At 500+ pages, guide will cost almost $2M to produce and send

It certainly doesn’t stack up to David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest, Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged or Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace, but this fall’s voter’s guide in San Francisco will certainly help prop open just about any door.

The voter’s guide for the 2013 fall election will clock in at more than 500 pages.

The phonebook-sized guide is courtesy of a city law that requires the full text of a referendum, as it was presented during the signature drive, to appear in the voter’s guide.

The legal text for the referendum — regarding the height of a condo project — includes numerous pages of text from the city’s planning commission, board of supervisor meeting testimony and environmental studies.

“If printed with the referendum, this would be San Francisco's largest voter guide,” explained Jon Arntz, director of elections for San Francisco. Read More…

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electionlineToday

May 23, 2013

Historical polling place serving voters again
It was a homecoming for a small contingency of Westmoreland County voters who after more than a decade returned to the Simpson Voting House in Derry Township to cast their ballots in Tuesday's primary election. Linda Metz, The Pittsburgh Post- Gazette.

LA vote count not slow, elections chief says
It took until 3 a.m. Wednesday morning for the L.A. City Clerk to report the results of Tuesday's vote. Some election watchers complained that vote counting in the city was just too slow, while the City Clerk's office says the count was normal, with no unusual delays. Sharon McNary, KPCC.

Also in electionlineToday news: Alabama, Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Wisconsin and national news (7:40 a.m. 05/23/13).