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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"voter registration"”.
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Voter Registration: A Security and Cryptography Perspective
Security and transparency of voter registration systems are crucial properties that any electoral system must satisfy: without robust guarantees on the underlying voter data, trust in election results—and the system as a whole—is severely impacted. In this thesis, we study two fundamental problems …
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Legal Dodges and Subterfuges: Measuring Impact of New Obstacles on Minority Voter Registration
… Act (VRA) in 1965. The federal regulation of voter and election law sought to end retrogressions in representation by intentional or effectual laws. In the VRA's wake, race based politics and policy rooted in White supremacy were curtailed with the gradual representation of communities of …
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When Do Party Leaders Democratize? Analyzing Three Reforms of Voter Registration and Candidate Selection
… The first paper takes up the case of the motor voter reform, which allows people to register to vote at driver's license offices. The reform was widely legislated by U.S. states before the passage of the National Voter Registration Act in 1993. The paper investigates the factors that helped …
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The Effects of Voter Registration Systems on Presidential Election Turnout in Non-Southern States: 1912-1924
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-13T19:06:40Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7616100.pdf: 10555870 bytes, checksum: 42d526789cfa548b278c6d27551f496d (MD5) Previous issue date: 1976
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MILITANT MAIDS: DOMESTIC WORKERS’ PARTICIPATION IN BUS BOYCOTTS, VOTER REGISTRATION, AND HEAD START PROGRAMS IN THE DEEP SOUTH
… in Baton Rouge, Montgomery, and Tallahassee; voter registration efforts in Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama, and Florida; and Head Start work in those same Deep South states. Domestic workers engaged in activism by joining unions, women's movements, and the Communist Party to improve their …
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Higher education institutions, voter registration, voter education, and voter participation: a study of college students in the 2016 presidential and 2018 mid-term congressional elections
… and the 2018 Mid-term Congressional Election, voter registration and voter participation rates showed significant improvements over previous trends in voters ages 18-29. This study aimed to understand the various environmental factors, campus features, and educational interventions used by …
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Beyond Rocking the Vote: An Analysis of Rhetoric Designed to Motivate Young Voters
… to solve the continued problem of low youth voter turnout in the U.S. have included get out the vote drives, voter registration campaigns, and public service announcements targeting 18- to 25-year-old voters. Pay Attention and Vote added to this effort to motivate young voters in its 2006 …
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American Digital Election Infrastructure: Policy, Risks, Options
… own risk environment with respect to digital voter registration databases (VRDs). This in turn produces significant variance in outcomes in levels of cyber security and priority of VRD governance. These factors combine to present serious vulnerabilities that could be exploited in a targeted …
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Liberalizing American Voting Laws: Institutionally Increasing Voter Turnout
… analyzing the impact voting laws have on voter turnout in national elections in the United States. I analyzed voter turnout in the 2008 Presidential Election and the 2010 off year election in all fifty states to see if voting restrictions declined turnout. My results show evidence that the …
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Are Condo Owners Changing San Francisco's Voting Habits?
… wisdom of political science holds up, then these voters should vote more conservatively. This paper looks at fifteen condo developments built in the last ten years to see if the above mentioned trend is occurring in a select number of voting precincts in San Francisco. </p> <p>By using voter …
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THE ROLE OF DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY IN IMPROVING ELECTORAL INTEGRITY: HOPE OR JUST HYPE?
… however, argue that digitization reduces voters’ confidence in elections as these technologies are susceptible to new vulnerabilities such as hacking, breakdown, and programmatic manipulation. While arguments on both sides are appealing, there has been very little systematic effort to …
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Grassroots Impacts on the Civil Rights Movement: Christian Women Leaders’ Contributions to the Paradigm Shift in the Tactics of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and Its Affiliates
… together with local black people to desegregate voter registration and which drove their voting rights movement to succeed in achieving the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The nationwide successes of the Birmingham Campaign, the Freedom Summer Project, the St. Augustine Movement, and the Selma to …
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The Twenty-Sixth Amendment as a Teachable Moment: Young Adult Voter Turnout in U.S. Elections, 1972-2006
… electoral reform journey. The persistently low voter turnout of newly enfranchised 18-20 year-olds since then not only is troubling from a democratic perspective but also is puzzling in light of the rapidly rising educational attainment of this age group during the same period. In this …
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Essays on Political Economy
… of an unexplored yet common form of vote-buying: voter registration shifting. I demonstrate that this practice drastically affects 15% of local elections in Colombia. By employing quasi-experimental methods, I illustrate how the (future) allocation of transfers from central to local governments …
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Soldiers and Civil Rights: The Impact of World War II on Jacksonville's African American Community, 1954-1960
… but used his military skills to orchestrate voter registration drives, and organize political campaigns. With their new skills and education, these men were not only able to organize and lead others but were equipped with the tools necessary to challenge the institutions that subverted their …
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C.C. Bryant: a Race Man Is What They Called Him
… NAACP by encouraging civic engagement through voter registration and education. In the nineteen seventies, Bryant was the principal litigant in the class action lawsuit, C.C. Bryant vs. Illinois Central Rail Road. Represented by the NAACP, this case struck down segregation in the workplace. In …
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Using Public and Private Blockchains for Secure Data Sharing and Analytics
… needs to be carefully specified and managed. Voter registration, financial compliance, healthcare management systems, insur- ance companies, monetary banks, etc. are just few examples among many that embrace data sharing at the heart of their ecosystem. These systems require to share data as …
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Providing For Our Communities, Protecting Our Race, Proving Ourselves: African American Activism and Protest In Depression Era New Orleans
… protection and provision to secure advances in voter registration, education and segregated public spaces as well as to demand justice in criminal cases involving interracial rape, murder and police brutality. The city's black newspaper, the Louisiana Weekly, also used the desires of individuals …
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Essays on Real Estate, Flood Risk, and Political Sentiment
… decisions to invest in real estate? Using voter registration records, real estate transaction deeds, and Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA) public loan records, I show that households are 8% to 10% more likely to purchase investment homes when they share political affiliation with the U.S. …
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The Determinant factors of cloud computing adoption for electoral data management in Nigeria
… technology in its voting processes, such as voter registration and validation. This embrace has advanced over the years from using the Open ballot system to the Continuous Accreditation and Voting System in the Nigerian elections. The technological approach used in Nigeria for electoral …
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