Voting Technology

Paul S. Herrnson is founding director of the Center for American Politics and Citizenship at the University of Maryland, USA. His books include Congressional Elections: Campaigning at Home and in Washington, D.C., USA (5th ed., CQ Press, in press). Richard G. Niemi is Don Alonzo Watson Professor of Political Science at the University of Rochester, New York, USA. His previous works include Vital Statistics on American Politics 2005-06 , with Harold Stanley (CQ Press, 2005). Michael J. Hanmer is assistant professor of government and politics at the University of Maryland, USA. He has published in the area of election reform. Benjamin B. Bederson is associate professor of computer science and director of the Human-Computer Interaction Lab at the Institute for Advanced Computer Studies, University of Maryland, USA. Frederick C. Conrad is research associate professor in survey research at both the University of Michigan and University of Maryland, USA. Michael W. Traugott is professor of communication studies and senior research scientist in the Center for Political Studies at the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research.

"In the aftermath of the 2000 Florida recount, it became clear that academic research on voting technologies had been inadequate. This book pushes the research frontier forward substantially and provides the foundation for a new generation of research on voting technologies and election administration." —R. Michael Alvarez, California Institute of Technology, coauthor of Point, Click and Vote: The Future of Internet Voting|" Voting Technology is an extremely significant book, with findings I have not seen in any other publication. It is easy to read, and the conclusions are compelling. This is exactly the kind of research that the U.S. Election Assistance Commission should be pursuing. Election administrators around the country should read it." —Ray Martinez, Rice University, former EAC commissioner|"It seems as if everybody talks about voting technology, but nobody seems to do anything about learning how to improve it —until this new volume. Finally, we have a book that does serious research on voting technology so that we can make it better." —Henry Brady, University of California–Berkeley|"Well written, well documented, and fascinating. Too little research has been done in the area of voting systems, even though it clearly affects all Americans. Voting Technology is a 'must read' for anyone interested in this important topic." —Paul DeGregorio, former chairman, U.S. Election Assistance Commission and CEO of Everybody Counts, Inc.|"[An] excellent study of usability and voting technology. This study is the most comprehensive analysis of voting machine usability to date, and it offers a new look into how the characteristics of voting machines affect the output of human-voting machine interactions." — Review of Policy Research|"This study of a very important but long neglected facet of elections is original in its scope and methodology. The authors' findings must be taken seriously by those who design voting systems, construct ballot formats, draft election legislation, or administer elections." —Richard G. Smolka, Election Law Journal|"The book is a must-read for anyone seriously interested in researching elections and the legitimacy they confer or not to rulers, as well as for policymakers." — Journal of Politics