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Residual Voting in Florida
Florida Map FragmentWith Charles Stewart, EVIC is conducting an analysis of residual voting in Florida, with particular focus on precinct-level data and important electoral subgroups.

Time-Shifting the Vote
Tree at Reed College EVIC hosted a two-day conference in October 2009. Leading academics, policy experts, and election officials discussed the last two decades of early voting in American election administration. We're currently working on several reports and products that stem from this meeting.

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Gronke in the NY Times on the top-two primary »
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Commentary

Outstanding ballots in Alaska »

As I worried last week, the Miller camp has leveled charges of "ballot counting monkey business" in the closely contested Alaskan GOP Senate primary.

The Anchorage Daily News now tallies 23,472 uncounted or "question" ballots.

More on Alaska and Australia: Is there a security issue in postmark states? »

A colleague in the elections community sent along this observation, which is pertinent to any state that requires ballots only be postmarked, but not delivered by Election Day.

They are sitting in post offices or they're in postal bags somewhere.

What if somebody, who already knows the Murkowski/Miller race is close, wanted to try and affect the outcome of the election and decided not to deliver a batch of ballots or discarded them?

Guest Post: Todd Donovan on IRV and the slow count in Australia »

Todd Donovan of Western Washington University writes to me about alternative voting (or IRV) and how this can be impacted by large numbers of ballots being counted after Election Day:

The long count of votes in Australia is somewhat complicated by the Alternate Vote (AV) system used there.