Convenience Voting and Technology : The Ccase of Military and Ooverseas Voters / Claire M. Smith.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smith, Claire M.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Absentee voting--United States.

Absentee voting.

Voting.

Technological innovations.

Transnational voting.

United States.

Transnational voting--United States.

Soldiers--Suffrage--United States.

Soldiers.

Soldiers--Suffrage.

Voting--Technological innovations--United States.

Physical Description:

xvi, 219 pages ; ǂc 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

Summary:

The global movement of people has created one of modern democracy's greatest challenges: the overseas voter. In response to the unique problems that voters abroad face, several key pieces of federal legislation have been passed by Congress, including the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act (UOCAVA) in 1986 and the Help America Vote Act (HAVA) in 2002. Smith closely examines the voting experiences of military and overseas citizens and documents the historical development of their voting rights and the development of voting technology. Several metrics of voting success are examined to determine how successful recent, legislation has been in improving the military and overseas voting experience, and identifies (imitations in public policy's ability to improve certain metrics of success, as well as the applicability of these lessons for domestic voters within the United States. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction : "my polling place is my living room"

Who are UOCAVA voters?

The development of military and overseas voting rights in the U.S

Evaluating voting policy success : aggregate outcomes

Evaluating voting policy success : voter satisfaction

Defending votes : the unique problems of military voters

Voting technology, privacy, and security concerns

The future of convenience voting for overseas and domestic voters

Appendix I: Chronology : significant events in the development of military and overseas voting

Appendix II: Changes in electronic transmission methods and voting outcomes, 2012 vs. 2008.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781137398581

OCLC:

881469451