Time to Think of Voting as a Privilege

2021 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
pp. 323-325
Author(s):  
Steven M. Krason ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Presidential Election ◽  
Significant Part ◽  
Voter Identification ◽  
Voting Procedures ◽  
The Wanderer

This was one of SCSS president Stephen M. Krason’s “Neither Left nor Right, but Catholic” columns that appeared in The Wanderer. In the wake of the controversy about the integrity and legitimacy of the 2020 U.S. presidential election, which was caused in significant part by changes in voting procedures to make it utterly easy to register and vote and even downplayed voter identification requirements. Krason argues that these changes have been precipitated by the ingraining of the view that voting should be understood as a right and if we think of voting not as a right but a privilege—and a corresponding duty, as a means to check a tendency to overreaching and corrupt government—such problems and abuses could be avoided.

Waiting to Vote in the 2016 Presidential Election: Evidence from a Multi-county Study

2019 ◽  
Vol 73 (2) ◽  
pp. 439-453 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert M. Stein ◽  
Christopher Mann ◽  
Charles Stewart ◽  
Zachary Birenbaum ◽  
Anson Fung ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Presidential Election ◽  
Waiting Times ◽  
The United States ◽  
Time Of Day ◽  
Research Teams ◽  
Nationwide Study ◽  
Voter Identification ◽  
Driver's License ◽  
Voter Id

This paper is the result of a nationwide study of polling place dynamics in the 2016 presidential election. Research teams, recruited from local colleges and universities and located in twenty-eight election jurisdictions across the United States, observed and timed voters as they entered the queue at their respective polling places and then voted. We report results about four specific polling place operations and practices: the length of the check-in line, the number of voters leaving the check-in line once they have joined it, the time for a voter to check in to vote (i.e., verify voter’s identification and obtain a ballot), and the time to complete a ballot. Long lines, waiting times, and times to vote are closely related to time of day (mornings are busiest for polling places). We found the recent adoption of photographic voter identification (ID) requirements to have a disparate effect on the time to check in among white and nonwhite polling places. In majority-white polling places, scanning a voter’s driver’s license speeds up the check-in process. In majority nonwhite polling locations, the effect of strict voter ID requirements increases time to check in, albeit modestly.

A Failsafe for Voters? Cast and Rejected Provisional Ballots in North Carolina

2019 ◽  
Vol 73 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-78
Author(s):  
Thessalia Merivaki ◽  
Daniel A. Smith
Keyword(s):  
North Carolina ◽  
Presidential Election ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Election Administration ◽  
Voter Identification ◽  
The Law ◽  
Provisional Ballots ◽  
The U.S

Provisional ballots constitute a failsafe for voters who have their registration or voter identification questioned by poll workers. Scholars have yet to examine who is more likely to cast a provisional ballot, and more importantly, why some provisional ballots are rejected. We suggest that beyond individual-level factors, there are administrative reasons why some prospective voters are more likely to be required to cast provisional ballots than others, and why some provisional ballots are rejected. Drawing on county data collected by the U.S. Election Assistance Commission’s (EAC) biennial Election Administration and Voting Surveys (EAVS) from 2012 to 2016, and individual records of provisional ballots cast in the 2016 Presidential Election in North Carolina, we examine aggregate- and individual-level reasons to explain who casts provisional ballots and why some are rejected. Our findings raise normative questions concerning whether voters casting provisional ballots are treated equally under the law.

The Past is Long-Lasting: Park Chung Hee Nostalgia and Voter Choice in the 2012 Korean Presidential Election

2016 ◽  
Vol 53 (2) ◽  
pp. 233-249 ◽  
Author(s):  
WooJin Kang
Keyword(s):  
Presidential Election ◽  
Political Influence ◽  
The Political ◽  
Dominant Ideology ◽  
The Past ◽  
Voter Identification ◽  
Park Chung Hee ◽  
Voter Choice ◽  
Rare Opportunity ◽  
Do So

The main goal of this study is to examine the political influence of Park Chung Hee (PCH) nostalgia on citizens’ support for Park Guen-hye (PGH) in the 2012 Korean presidential election. The 2012 presidential election offers a rare opportunity to test the political influence of PCH nostalgia on citizens’ electoral choices. To do so, this study analyzes dual aspects of PCH nostalgia and its influence on voters choosing PGH in the 2012 presidential election: voter preference for PGH, and voter identification with developmentalism, the PCH government’s dominant ideology. The findings of this study confirm that both aspects of PCH nostalgia significantly influenced citizens who chose to support Park Chung Hee’s daughter. These findings also have comparative implications, relevant to similar political situations in other emergent democracies.

Conclusion: Manufacturing Matters More Than Ever

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
William B. Bonvillian ◽  
Peter L. Singer
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Economic Growth ◽  
Presidential Election ◽  
The United States ◽  
Significant Part ◽  
Advanced Manufacturing ◽  
Social Disruption ◽  
Social Fabric ◽  
The Social ◽  
New Strategy

This concluding chapter argues that the larger issue facing the United States is that the social disruption will not just fade away. The decline of manufacturing was a wild card factor that spelled growing social disappointment and corresponding social disruption. The outcome of the 2016 presidential election brought this reality home to all—it was in significant part a postindustrial backlash. The United States can ignore manufacturing and allow it to continue to erode, but the consequences to U.S. innovation capability and therefore to economic growth appear to be problematic. It also now appears that there are consequences for the nation's social fabric and democratic values as well. Ultimately, a new strategy of innovation-driven advanced manufacturing offers one pathway out of America's economic problems.

Voting Procedures

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin Pallister
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Voter Registration ◽  
Place Of Residence ◽  
Trade Off ◽  
Secret Ballot ◽  
Internet Voting ◽  
Voter Identification ◽  
Voting Procedures ◽  
Absentee Voting

Chapter 3 discusses the “access versus integrity” framing of debates about registration and balloting procedures, particularly as it has developed in the United States. It identifies several areas where the choice of voting procedures does present a trade-off between these values: the secret ballot, the rules for changing voters’ place of residence on the electoral rolls, mail and absentee voting, mobile polling places, voter identification requirements, and internet voting. But the study also identifies several areas where both inclusion and security may be enhanced: automatic voter registration, Election Day registration, online and automated voter registration, posting provisional voter rolls prior to Election Day, early (in-person) voting, and decentralized polling places. Thus the “access versus integrity” framing may limit opportunities to improve both access and integrity through policies designed to strengthen electoral integrity and bipartisan agreement.

The 2000 Presidential Election and the Foundations of Party Politics

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Johnston ◽  
Michael G. Hagen ◽  
Kathleen Hall Jamieson
Keyword(s):  
Presidential Election ◽  
Party Politics
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