Survey on straight-ticket voting

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: "Joseph Lorenzo Hall" <joehall () gmail com>
Date: November 3, 2008 9:00:08 PM EST
To: dave () farber net
Subject: Fwd: [Accurate-all] Survey on straight-ticket voting

Hi Dave, would be indebted to you if you could send this out to IP.
This would benefit from very wide posting.

Mike is part of our NSF e-voting center, ACCURATE.  He's noticed all
the problems with straight-party voting this election season and has a
short survey below designed to get some clarity on how people think
straight-party voting *should* work.

best, Joe

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From: Mike Byrne <byrne () rice edu>
Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2008 16:38:39 -0600
Subject: [Accurate-all] Survey on straight-ticket voting
To: ACCURATE mailing list <accurate-all () isi jhu edu>, quixotegroup () calvoter org

One of the things my students and I have observed already in this
election is the wide variety of behaviors exhibited with straight-
party voting systems.  There is obviously no standardization in how
this is implemented, both for paper ballots and DREs.  For example, if
a voter selects straight-party Republican, but wants to vote for the
Democrat for Senate, how is that best accomplished?  It is clear that
the answer depends on what system you're on.

So, we're doing a survey on how people think straight-party voting
works.  We intend to follow up the results of this survey with one or
more experiments where we test one or more straight-party schemes.
What we're after with this study is some understanding of people's
mental models of how straight-ticket voting works.

We'd like to get a large and broad sample, so please disseminate this
as widely as possible;  it's Web-based:
<http://chil.rice.edu/voting/x93/voting.html
>

Thanks!
-Mike


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Mike Byrne, Ph.D.                           <byrne () acm org>
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Rice University, MS-25        <http://chil.rice.edu/byrne/>
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