The Future of Election Administration

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxii

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2. Introduction

   • Bridgett A. King, Mitchell Brown, Kathleen Hale

   Pages 1-13

3. Current Challenges and the Future of Access and Participation

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-15

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   2. The Federal Response and New Considerations for Election Administration

      • Bridgett A. King

      Pages 17-30

   3. Parties and Politics: The Evolution of Election Administration

      • Doug Lewis

      Pages 31-47

   4. Accessible and Secure: Improving Voter Confidence by Protecting the Right to Vote

      • Thomas Hicks

      Pages 49-58

   5. Challenges in Voter Registration

      • Thessalia Merivaki, Daniel A. Smith

      Pages 59-82

   6. Polling Place Quality and Access

      • Robert Stein, Christopher Mann, Charles Stewart III

      Pages 83-100

4. Meeting the Challenges of Professionalism

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 101-101

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   2. The Evolution of Professionalism in the Field of Election Administration

      • Mitchell Brown, Kathleen Hale

      Pages 103-117

   3. The Elections Performance Index: Past, Present, and Future

      • Charles Stewart III

      Pages 119-153

   4. Building Terminology in the Field

      • Katy Owens Hubler, Tammy Patrick

      Pages 155-168

   5. Diversity and Descriptive Representation in Election Administration

      • Bridgett A. King

      Pages 169-184

   6. Election Costs: A Study of North Carolina

      • Martha Kropf, JoEllen V. Pope

      Pages 185-198

5. Emerging and Future Issues in Election Administration

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 199-199

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   2. The Role of Election Vendors in Election Administration

      • Peter Lichtenheld

      Pages 201-211

   3. Election Integrity in Ensuring Accuracy

      • Christy McCormick

      Pages 213-241

   4. Election Security: Increasing Election Integrity by Improving Cybersecurity

      • Marian K. Schneider

      Pages 243-259

   5. Election Audits

      • Jennifer Morrell

      Pages 261-278

   6. Election Cybersecurity

      • Judd Choate, Robert Smith

      Pages 279-299

Stakeholders in the operation of American elections are keenly focused on policy reform, resource allocation, administrative professionalism, voter access and accessibility, equipment security, and system integrity. The Future of Election Administration is an edited volume that gathers the perspectives of today’s most forward-thinking practitioners and experts of policy, advocacy, and research about the importance of particular election practices, the professional and operational challenges that election administrators and voter registrars face, and emerging issues in the field. Through its combination of multiple perspectives to describe, analyze, and anticipate key dynamics and dilemmas as well as its emphasis on the practical aspects of administration, this book makes a unique contribution to the election administration literature.

• Election administration
• Election reform
• Polling Accessibility
• 50-state portability
• Voter verification
• Straight ticket verification
• Voting technology
• Election assistance commission
• Federal Voting Assistance Program
• Felon disenfranchisement
• Mail balloting
• Online voter registration
• Help America Vote Act
• Military and Overseas Voter Empowerment Act
• Provisional ballots
• Electronic pollbooks
• National Voter Registration Act
• Voter fatigue
• Election Integrity
• Election Security

“This volume has assembled state-of-the-art work by some of the very best election administration scholars. With extant theory as its foundation, this work exhibits the highest of thought and evidence on many challenging topics related to voting, including federalism, resources, professionalism, technology, and even the quality of democracy itself. In doing so, this work succeeds in both contextualizing election administration in the American political climate and illuminating a path forward for future research.” (Kyle L. Saunders, Professor, Political Science, Colorado State University, USA)

“Both The Future of Election Administration and its open access companion, The Future of Election Administration: Cases and Conversations provide a much-needed framework for organizing the multiple stakeholders in the field of election science. Combined, they highlight the pressing questions in the field, the progress that has been made, the experiences on the ground that make adifference, and the future challenges we face.” (Lonna Atkeson, Professor, Political Science, University of New Mexico, USA)

 

• Auburn University, Auburn, USA

  Mitchell Brown, Kathleen Hale, Bridgett A. King

Mitchell Brown is Professor of Political Science at Auburn University, USA. Her scholarship focuses on empowerment processes for marginalized groups, including electoral strategies and program evaluation for public and nonprofit organizations. She contributes regularly to the CERA program.

Kathleen Hale is Professor of Political Science and director of the graduate program in election administration at Auburn University, USA. She serves on the Election Center’s Board of Directors and the MIT Data and Election Sciences Lab advisory board, and directs Auburn University faculty in CERA, the national professional certification program for election officials established in partnership with the Election Center.

Bridgett A. King is Assistant Professor of Political Science and director of the MPA Program at Auburn University, USA. Her research focuses on political participation, voter disenfranchisement, and citizen perceptions of the electoral system. Formerly a voting rights researcher in the Democracy Program at the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University, she contributes regularly to the CERA program.

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