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Survey on Straight Ticket Voting Problems

Survey on straight-ticket voting
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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 [you know what to do ] acm.org>
Associate Professor, Psychology and Computer Science
Rice University, MS-25 <http://chil.rice.edu/byrne/>
6100 Main Street +1 713-348-3770 voice
Houston, TX 77005-1892 +1 713-348-5221 fax

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