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creators_name: Alvarez, R. Michael
creators_name: Hall, Thad E.
creators_name: Llewellyn, Morgan H.
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creators_id: morgan.llewellyn@imtlucca.it
title: Are Americans Confident Their Ballots Are Counted?
ispublished: pub
subjects: JK
divisions: EIC
full_text_status: none
note: © 2008 Southern Political Science Association 
abstract: Building on the literature that investigates citizen and voter trust in government, we analyze the topic of voter confidence in the American electoral process. Our data comes from two national telephone surveys where voters were asked the confidence they have that their vote for president in the 2004 election was recorded as intended. We present preliminary evidence that suggests confidence in the electoral process affects voter turnout. We then examine voter responses to determine the overall level of voter confidence and analyze the characteristics that influence the likelihood a voter is confident that their ballot was recorded accurately. Our analyses indicate significant differences in the level of voter confidence along both racial and partisan lines. Finally, we find voter familiarity with the electoral process, opinions about the electoral process in other voting precincts, and both general opinions about voting technology and the specific technology the voter uses significantly affect the level of voter confidence. 
date: 2008
date_type: published
publication: The Journal of Politics
volume: 70
number: 03
publisher: Cambridge University Press
pagerange: 754-766
id_number: doi: 10.1017/S0022381608080730
refereed: TRUE
issn: 0022-3816
official_url: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0022381608080730
citation:   Alvarez, R. Michael and Hall, Thad E. and Llewellyn, Morgan H.  Are Americans Confident Their Ballots Are Counted?  The Journal of Politics, 70 (03).  pp. 754-766.  ISSN 0022-3816      (2008)