Election administration in the United States
Subtitle: the state of reform after Bush v. Gore
By: edited by R. Michael Alvarez, Bernard M. Grofman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 247
ISBN-13: 9781107048638; 9781107625952
Subjects: Trials, litigation; Management; Elections; Election law
Description: "This book tells the story of how the way in which we conduct elections has changed after the Florida recount litigation of 2000. Some of the nation's leading experts look at various aspects of election administration, including issues of ballot format, changes in registration procedures, the growth in the availability of absentee ballot rules and other forms of "convenience voting," and changes in the technology used to record our votes. They also look at how the Bush v. Gore decision has been used by courts that monitor the election process and at the consequences of changes in practice for levels of invalid ballots, magnitude of racial disparities in voting, voter turnout, and access to the ballot by those living outside the United States. The editors, in their introduction, also consider the normative question of exactly what we want a voting system to do. An epilogue by two leading election law specialists looks at how election administration and election contest issues played out in the 2012 presidential election"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-238) and index.
Table of contents: title: Disputed elections post Bush v. Gore / Mark Braden and Robert Tucker; title: The cites that counted : a decade of Bush v. Gore jurisprudence / Charles Anthony Smith; title: Bush v. Gore in the American mind : reflections and survey results on the tenth anniversary of the decision ending the 2000 election controversy / Amy Semet, Nathaniel Persily, and Stephen Ansolabehere; title: What hath HAVA wrought? : consequences, intended and not, of the post-Bush v. Gore reforms / Charles Stewart III; title: Voter confidence in 2010 : local, state, and national factors / Lonna Rae Atkeson; title: Early voting after Bush v. Gore / Paul Gronke; title: Absentee ballot regimes : easing costs or adding a step? / Jan E. Leighley and Jonathan Nagler; title: The evolution (or not) of ballot design ten years after Bush v. Gore / Martha Kropf; title: Poll workers and polling places / Thad E. Hall and Kathleen Moore; title: Resolving voter registration problems : making registration easier, less costly, and more accurate / R. Michael Alvarez and Thad E. Hall; title: Felon disenfranchisement after Bush v. Gore : changes and trends / Khalilah L. Brown-Dean; title: Epilogue: Bush v. Gore and the constitutional right to vote / Samuel Issacharoff and Richard H. Pildes.