Title

Service Delivery And Ict On Election Day: A Position Paper On Delivering New Election Technology To Voters

Abstract

This paper advocates for changing Election Day from Tuesday to a weekend day in U.S. elections. The motivation for advocating this policy change is to help counties recruit poll workers. Others who advocate for changing Election Day have done so on behalf of enhancing voter turnout. Our argument takes a new approach in advocating an Election Day date change that focuses on its value for recruiting needed poll workers. The enactment of the Help America Vote Act in 2002, coupled with statutory changes at the state level, creates a need for more poll workers, particularly those with advanced technical skills and knowledge of languages other than English. We argue here that college students represent an ideal poll worker population whose opportunities to work the polls are limited when elections take place on days that classes normally meet. An added benefit to recruiting college-age poll workers is that they might continue working the polls for the next several decades. As the average poll worker in the United States is 72, recruiting younger poll workers will address short and long term needs. Data included in this paper are derived from an Elections Assistance Commission Grant #060046 awarded to the authors in August 2006.

Publication Date

1-1-2007

Publication Title

IMSCI 2007 - International Multi-Conference on Society, Cybernetics and Informatics, Proceedings

Volume

2

Number of Pages

419-424

Document Type

Article; Proceedings Paper

Personal Identifier

scopus

Socpus ID

84896979104 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/84896979104

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