News tagged with registered voters


Pre-election surveys show deep concern about state of health care

Medicine & Health / Health

created Oct 30, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

With only a few days remaining before Election Day, researchers from Harvard School of Public Health and the Kaiser Family Foundation, writing for the November 6, 2008, New England Journal of Medicine, find that seven in ten ...


4 in 10 voters don't see either Obama or McCain health-care plan as better for them

Medicine & Health / Health

created Oct 02, 2008 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

As part of the ongoing poll series, Debating Health: Election 2008, the Harvard Public Opinion Research Program at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) and Harris Interactive® conducted a new survey focused on how ...





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Majority of voters say election outcome will make a great deal of difference on key issues

Medicine & Health / Health

created Oct 28, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

As part of the ongoing poll series, Debating Health: Election 2008, the Harvard Public Opinion Research Program at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) and Harris Interactive conducted a new survey focused on whether ...


Young voters influenced by negative political ads, says study

Other Sciences / Other

created Feb 12, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 0

In the April issue of the Journal of Consumer Research, an important field study of registered voters aged 18-23 reveals that negative “attack” ads provoke more voter migration than positive ads. Researchers from Notre Dame a ...


New Data Support Use Of Instant Run-Off Voting

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- New data collected as part of a North Carolina State University study during the 2009 municipal election in Hendersonville, N.C., show that voters prefer instant run-off voting (IRV) to traditional voting ...


Early voting option can decrease turnout, research shows

Other Sciences / Other

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Although states are moving quickly to put in place election procedures that allow for early voting, allowing people to cast ballots ahead of Election Day often results in lower turnout, according to research ...


New technologies make campaign more personal, analyst says

Other Sciences / Other

created Sep 02, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A political scientist at Montana State University believes that technological advances have made the political campaign process more personal than any campaign for more than a century.


Low turnout mars Hawaii's digital vote

Technology / Hi Tech

created May 28, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 1

(AP) -- They built a new digital voting system, but the voters didn't come.


Electronic methods potentially secure for sending blank ballots overseas

Technology / Engineering

created Dec 23, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Electronic technologies could be deployed immediately and reliably to augment slower postal mail for distributing ballots to U.S. citizens living abroad, but using telephone, e-mail, and the Web to transmit completed ballots ...


College students vote smarter than expected

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Oct 01, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

College students make strategic choices about where to vote, most prefer absentee ballots, and they are especially likely to vote absentee if their homes are in swing states, according to a new Northwestern University study ...


Late Registrants More Likely to Vote, Finds Study of Voter Participation

Other Sciences / Other

created Mar 19, 2007 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

"Later is better" when it comes to voter registration in national elections, according a new study of voter participation in the 2000 presidential election.


Computer scientists deploy first practical, Web-based, secure, verifiable voting system

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Mar 05, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (28) | comments 12

Computer scientists affiliated with the Center for Research on Computation and Society (CRCS), based at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), in collaboration with scientists at the Université ...



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