Election-Campaign Law

If you go to just one panel at MPSA it must be this one ? I hear that Markovits and Spencer paper is da bomb ?

By Paul Gronke

22-3 Turnout - Voting Laws and Election Administration
Date:	Thursday, April 2 4:45 pm
Chair(s):	Barry Burden, University of Wisconsin
Paper(s):	Lines at Polling Stations: Observations from an Election Day Field Study
	This paper attempts to understand how and why long lines form at a polling place. It uses new data collected during California’s 2008 Presidential Primary Election by observing voter behavior inside 30 California polling places.
	Douglas M. Spencer, University of California, Berkeley
	Zachary S. Markovits, Pew Center on the States
	The Effects of Election Day Vote Centers on Voter Turnout and Satisfaction
	In this project we evaluate the impact of Election Day vote centers on voter turnout and satisfaction in the 2008 elections.
	Robert M. Stein, Rice University
	Greg Vonnahme, University of Alabama
	The Voter ID Mess: Estimating the Effects of State Voter ID laws on Voter Turnout and Self-Reported Voting Irregularities
	I analyze the effects of state voter ID laws on voter turnout and voting irregularities from 2000-2008.
	Jeff Milyo, University of Missouri
Discussant(s):	Barry Burden, University of Wisconsin

In all seriousness, I am looking forward to all three of these presentations. Should be a great panel.

Full post as published by Election Updates on March 26, 2009 (boomark / email).