EVIC Stands in Solidarity with Black Americans
EVIC STANDS WITH BLACK AMERICANS
In light of recent unconscionable acts of police brutality, EVIC stands in solidarity with Black Americans.
We further affirm their right to equal access to the ballot. Responding to a history of voter suppression and disenfranchisement, we believe that a free, fair, and secure election system; community outreach; and ongoing research is necessary to ensure equity in the voting process.
We are using these recent events to learn, reflect, and reexamine our beliefs and values to ensure that we are foregrounding justice in our election administration work. Together, we can encourage an election system that supports racial equity and anti-racism.
New Research Relating Partisanship and Automatic Voter Registration
Emergent research relating partisanship, perceptions of election legitimacy, and Automatic Voter Registration (AVR) from Prof. Paul Gronke, Christopher B. Mann, and Natalie Adona.
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(Crossposted from https://www.reed.edu/reed-magazine/articles/2020/gronkewinscarnegie.html)
Reed College Professor of Political Science Paul Gronke was selected as part of the 2020 class of Andrew Carnegie Fellows. The prestigious award supports high-caliber scholarship in the social sciences and humanities, making it possible for recipients to continue their research on pressing issues and cultural transitions affecting U.S. citizens at home and abroad. Professor Gronke was recognized for his scholarship on election security and accessibility.
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A new report released today by the Early Voting Information Center at Reed College provides a roadmap to state election officials when developing a systematic election-performance auditing process for the State of Oregon. The report is a collaboration between Reed College and Caltech, with funding provided by the Oregon Secretary of State, Elections Division.
“The report demonstrates the integrity of Oregon’s registration system, but also that the system needs to be modernized to be able to take advantage of modern technology tools and analysis. The performance audit process innovated by Caltech is an invaluable tool for election administrators to pressure test registration and balloting systems.”
— Paul Gronke, Director, Early Voting Information Center
A new piece in Belt Magazine maps out challenges facing the national call for expanding vote by mail. EVIC’s Director, Dr. Gronke notes the transition is a challenge akin to moving from “Walmart to Amazon” in short period of time. Along with other election administration scholars, this piece surveys the questions election administrators face. Read more here: “Democracy by Mail.”
We appear about halfway down in this posting:
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-coronavirus-could-change-how-we-vote-in-2020-and-beyond/
We appear about halfway down in this posting:
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-coronavirus-could-change-how-we-vote-in-2020-and-beyond/
DF/RC 2018 Survey of Local Election Officials
The Early Voting Information Center, in collaboration with Democracy Fund, is proud to announce the release of the Stewards of Democracy, a report based on our 2018 Survey of Local Election Officials. Conducted in the summer of 2018, this survey obtained responses from over 1,000 officials across the country, serving jurisdictions ranging in size from under 250 voters to over 1 million voters.
A lot more information is contained in the full report, but a brief list of the takeaways:
- LEOs were prepared for the 2018 midterm election, although most expressed low confidence in obtaining sufficient numbers of bilingual poll workers.
