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Alvarez, Michael

Michael Alvarez is a Professor of Political Science at Caltech, where his teaching and research focuses on electoral politics in the United States. Co-Director of the Caltech-MIT Voting Technology Project, much of his recent worked has centered on issues of the internet and other technological solutions to electoral problems.

On electionreformproject.org:

»	Interstate Voter Registration Database Matching: The Oregon-Washington 2008 Pilot Project
»	Declining Public Assistance Voter Registration and Welfare Reform: A Response (PDF)
»	Flooding the Vote: Hurricane Katrina and Voter Participation in New Orleans (PDF)
»	The Likely Consequences of Internet Voting for Political Represenation (PDF)
»	Making Voting Easier: Election Day Registration in New York (PDF)
»	Studying Elections: Data Quality and Pitfalls in Measuring the Effects of Voting Technologies (PDF)
»	The Next Big Election Challenge: Developing Electronic Data Transaction Standards for Election Administration (PDF)
»	Improving the Election Day Survey (PDF)
»	Controlling Democracy: The Principal-Agent Problems in Election Administration (PDF)
»	How Hard Can It Be: Do Citizens Think It Is Difficult to Register to Vote? (PDF)
»	Election Day Voter Registration in Iowa (PDF)
»	Military Voting and the Law: Procedural and Technological Solutions to the Ballot Transit Problem (PDF)
»	Bridging Science, Technology, and Politics in Election Systems
»	The New Mexico Election Administration Report: The 2006 November General Election (PDF)
»	The Effect of Voter Identification Laws on Turnout (PDF)
»	Internet Voting in Estonia (PDF)
»	Election Day Voter Registration in Massachusetts (PDF)
»	Building Secure and Transparent Elections Through Standard Operating Procedures (PDF)
»	The New Mexico Post-Election Audit Report (PDF)
»	Voter Confidence in Context and the Effect of Winning (PDF)
»	Who Should Run Our Elections? Public Opinion About Election Governance in the United States: Working Paper (PDF)
»	Whose Absentee Votes Are Counted: The Variety and Use of Absentee Ballots in California: Working Paper (PDF)
»	A Review of Proposed Voluntary Voting System Guidelines
»	Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project
»	Election Updates (blog of Michael Alvarez and Thad Hall)

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