• News round-up

  January 14th, 2008

  Several media outlets have picked up on EVIC's work on early voting in the forthcoming primary elections. St. Petersburg Times (Fla.) notes that some Florida voters were the first to vote this primary season--a consequence of early voting and the state's decision to move up its primaries; USA Today also carries a story on this theme. Meanwhile, the New York Times discusses the importance of mail-in voting to the forthcoming elections.

• EAC Election Day Survey data released

  January 14th, 2008

  The EAC has released the data from the 2006 Election Day Survey. The collection of statistics about election practices and voting covers all 50 states plus the District of Columbia and U.S. territories and is available at the EAC website.

• Gronke Interviewed on Measure 50

  November 8th, 2007

  EVIC Director Paul Gronke recently gave his thoughts on the failure of Oregon's Measure 50 initiative to Northwest Newschannel 8. The full story is available on its website.

• EVIC Awarded New Contract by Pew Charitable Trusts

  October 8th, 2007

  EVIC is pleased to announce that it has secured two contracts worth over $200,000. We will provide consulting services to electionline.org and the Making Voting Work projects. The Center will also be conducting a new study of residual voting at the precinct level (in collaboration with Professor Charles Stewart III and Election Data Services).

• Report on 2006 Military and Overseas Voting Released by EAC

  September 25th, 2007

  The United States Election Assistance Commission (EAC) today released its 2006 Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Voting Act (UOCAVA) Report, a collection of data from the states about UOCAVA voting. The survey was released at today's Facilitating the Uniformed and Overseas Voting Act conference. The report and other materials from the conference are available here.

• EVIC Loses; Senator Mary Landrieu Gains

  September 14th, 2007

  Congratulations to Dan Toffey (Reed '07), my co-author on the paper listed below: Dan has been snatched up by Mary Landrieu's (D-La.) reelection effort. He is a diligent researcher and excellent writer. Our loss is the campaign's gain. I'd hate to have Dan doing opposition research on me!

• The Psychological and Institutional Determinants of Early Voting

  September 14th, 2007

  This paper is now forthcoming in the Journal of Social Issues. See the resources page for a copy.

• Early Voting presentations at upcoming conferences

  August 10th, 2007

  EVIC Researchers will be presenting a paper on "The Psychological and Institutional Determinants of Early Voting" at the upcoming American Psychological Association meeting in San Francisco, August 17; "Early Voting in Oregon: A Replication and Extension" at the American Political Science Association meeting in Chicago; and a revised version of the APA paper, also in Chicago.
  
  Update: Papers now available at the resources page (09/02/07).

• EVIC Article on Early Voting

  July 23rd, 2007

  Our forthcoming article on early voting and turnout, in PS: Political Science and Politics, will appear in the October issue. The table of contents is here.

• EVIC Presentation at NASS

  July 16th, 2007

  Paul Gronke discussed the relationship between Early Voting and Turnout at the Summer meeting of National Association of Secretary of States, July 16, 2007. The Powerpoint presentation can be downloaded here.

• NVRA Report Released

  June 30th, 2007

  The first product from the EAC Contract has been delivered to Congress, the EAC announced today.

• EVIC Awarded EAC Contract

  May 15th, 2007

  In partnership with Election Data Systems and Polidata, EVIC has been awarded a contract to compile data and produce reports from the 2006 Election Administration Survey from the EAC. EVIC researchers will work to produce the 2007 NVRA, UOCAVA, and Election Day Survey reports.

• EVIC Awarded Carnegie Corporation Grant

  July 15th, 2006

  EVIC has received a $17,000 grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York to support the Election Day Survey Enhancement Project, to run through January 2007. This grant has been generously supplemented by the American Enterprise Institute / Brookings Institute Election Reform Project and the Charles McKinley Fund at Reed College.

  The Election Day Survey was administered by the Election Assistance Commission (EAC) after the 2004 election, in response to the ongoing controversy over election administration, equity of access, and voter fraud. The EAC was created by Congress as part of the 2002 Help America Vote Act (HAVA). The 2004 Election Day Survey was the first nationwide census of election rules and procedures, election machinery, and use of absentee, early, and provisional ballots. The Election Day Survey Enhancement project will make the survey more widely accessible to scholars, policy makers, and the general public, by creating an innovative, easy to use, web-based facility to retrieve information, run statistical analyses, and produce maps using the survey dataset. EVIC will also supplement the EDS with demographic information and fill in missing data, allowing a more comprehensive look at election administration in the country.

• Early Voting blog has moved!

  April 26th, 2006

  Our blog has been merged with other scholars invesigating convenience voting and electoral reform. For more postings, please go to http://electionupdates.caltech.edu.

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