ESRA 2020 Conference Program
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A pdf version of this program is available here.
Day 1: Voter Registration and Ballot Design
Voter Registration
Monday, June 29 @ 1pm Eastern Time
- Kevin Morris Brennan Center for Justice at New York University. “Who Votes After Their Registration is Cancelled? Evidence from North Carolina”
- Seo-young Silvia Kim California Institute of Technology/American University, and Jian Cao and R. Michael Alvarez California Institute of Technology. “Heterogeneity in Voter List Maintenance Practices: A Study of Florida Counties.”
- Carl E. Klarner KlarnerPolitics.org and Thessalia Merivaki Mississippi State University. “Forecasting Monthly County Voter Registration Totals.”
Chair/Discussant: Daniel Smith University of Florida
Ballot Design
Monday, June 29 @ 2:45pm Eastern Time
- Esra Issever-Ekinci Koc University. “Electoral Reforms in Parliamentary Democracies.”
- Shiro Kuriwaki Harvard University. “Straight ticket, split ticket, and ballot roll-off: Findings from a new clustering algorithm for cast vote records and large survey data.”
- Matthew P. Thornburg University of South Carolina, Aiken; Garrison Davis University of South Carolina; and Duncan Buell University of South Carolina. “Using the Straight Party Option to Understand Satisficing While Voting.”
Chair/Discussant: Marc Meredith University of Pennsylvania
Day 2: Voting in the Time of COVID19
COVID19 and Vote-at-Home
Tuesday, June 30 @ 1pm Eastern Time
- Trey Hood University of Georgia and Audrey Haynes University of Georgia. “Mail It In: An Analysis of the Peach State’s Response to the Coronavirus Pandemic.”
- Enrijeta Shino University of North Florida, Mara Suttmann-Lea Connecticut College, and Daniel A Smith University of Florida. “Voting by Mail in a VENMO World: Assessing Rejected Absentee Ballots in Georgia.”
- Stéphanie G. Plante Carleton University.“Signed, Sealed, Delivered – Canada’s Internet Voting Patchwork.”
Chair/Discussant: Christopher B. Mann Skidmore College
COVID19 and Public Opinion
Tuesday, June 30 @ 2:45pm Eastern Time
- Christopher B. Mann Skidmore College and Kathleen Searles Louisiana State University. “Please Don’t Say Lines Are Long: How Media Coverage of Polling Place Lines Shapes Public Perceptions, Voter Turnout and Confidence in Elections.”
- Mackenzie Lockhart University of California, San Diego; Seth Hill University of California, San Diego; Thad Kousser University of California, San Diego; Jennifer Merolla University of California, Riverside; and Mindy Romero University of South Carolina. “Are Voters Polarized Along Party Lines About How to Run Elections During the COVID-19 Crisis?”
- Mark Owens University of Texas at Tyler. “Changes in Attitudes: Nothing Remains Quite the Same with Opinions on Absentee Voting.”
Chair/Discussant: Barry Burden University of Wisconsin
Day 3: Who Is Affected by Voting Laws?
Convenience Voting and Disparate Effects
Wednesday, July 1 @ 1pm Eastern Time
- Andrew Menger Washington University, St. Louis; and Robert Stein Rice University. “How to measure and assess the turnout effects of election reforms.”
- Joseph A. Coll University of Iowa and Courtney L. Juelich University of Iowa. “Do You Want Youths to Vote? Because That’s (Not) How You Get Youths to Vote: The Effects of Election Reforms, Sciences, and Administration on Youth Voters.”
- Caroline Tolbert University of Iowa and Joseph Coll University of Iowa. “A Placebo Test: Automatic Voter Registration (AVR)’s Differential Effects on Turnout.”
Chair/Discussant: Jan Leighley American University
Voting Rights
Wednesday, July 1 @ 2:45pm Eastern Time
- Mara Suttmann-Lea Connecticut College. “Won’t You Be My Neighbor? Descriptive Representation and Poll Worker Performance.”
- Michael Ritter Washington State University. “Residual Voting, Voting Equipment, and Inequality.”
- Travis W. Endicott University of Mississippi, Thessalia Merivaki Mississippi State University, and Julie Wronski University of Mississippi. “Can Voters tell When Costs of Voting Are High? The Voter Experience in Mississippi.”
Chair/Discussant: Lisa Bryant California State University, Fresno
Day 4: Public Opinion of Election Administration
Thursday, July 2, 1pm Eastern Time
- Jesse T Clark Massachusetts Institute of Technology. “The Maine Event? The Mismatch between Expectations and Outcomes in Election Reform.”
- Devin McCarthy Duke University. “Elite Manipulation of Democratic Principles in the Mass Public.”
Chair/Discussant: Thessalia Merivaki Mississippi State University