Program

Chair: Kenneth Mayer (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Discussants: 

• Eric McGhee (Public Policy Institute of California)
• Judd Choate (Colorado Division of Elections)

Presentations:

“Evaluating the Impact of Drop Boxes on Voter Turnout” (blog post)

• William McGuire
• Benjamin O’Brien Gonzalez
• Katherine Baird,
• Benjamin Corbett
• Loren Collingwood

“Registration Innovation: The Impact of American Registration Regimes, 1996-2016” (blog post/slides)

• Holly Ann Garnett
• Peter Miller

“A Field Experiment to Examine States’ Efforts to Increase Registration and Turnout” (blog post)

• Lisa Bryant
• Michael Hanmer

“A Field Experiment to Examine States’ Efforts to Increase Registration and Turnout: Who Votes When and Why?” (blog post)

• Brian T. Hamel
• Jan E. Leighley
• Marvin R. McNeese, Jr.
• Robert M. Stein

Chair: Mitchell Brown (Auburn University)

Discussants:

• Paul Gronke (Reed College)
• Adam Lasker (Chicago Board of Elections)

Presentations:

“Estimating the Differential Effects of Purging Inactive Registered Voters”

• Michael Herron
• Daniel Smith

“Managing Voter Registration Rolls the Hybrid Way: The Case of Mississippi” (blog post)

• Thessalia Merivaki
• Sean Conner

Chair: Charles Stewart III (MIT)

Panelists:

• Lori Edwards (Polk County, FL)
• Amy Cohen (National Association of State Election Directors)
• Steve Trout (State of Oregon)
• Willie Green (Floyd County, GA)

Cameron Wimpy (MEDSL)

Chair: Paul Herrnson (University of Connecticut)

Discussants: 

• Michael Miller (Barnard College)
• Edward Foley (Ohio State University)

Presentations:

“Photo ID Implementation in Missouri Counties”

• Joseph Anthony
• David Kimball

“Information and Identification: A Field Experiment on Virginia’s Photo Identification Requirements” (blog post)

• Kyle Endres
• Costas Panagopoulos

“A Disproportionate Burden: Strict Voter Identification Laws and Minority Turnout” (blog post)

• Zoltan Hajnal
• John Kuk
• Nazita Lajevardi

“Who Votes without Identification? Using Affidavits from Michigan to Learn about the Potential Impact of Strict Photo Identification Laws”(blog post/slides)

• Phoebe Henninger
• Marc Meredith
• Michael Morse

Chair: David Kimball (University of Missouri-St. Louis)
Discussants: 

• Bernard Fraga (Indiana University)
• Jonathan Robinson (Catalist)

Presentations:

“What Nationwide Voter Files Can Tell Us about the Effects of Election Laws” (blog post)

• Bernard Fraga
• John Holbein
• Christopher Skovron

“Modeling Voting Service Times with Machine Logs”(blog post/slides)

• Jacob Jaffe
• Charles Stewart III
• Jacob Coblenz

“A Method to Audit the Assignment of Registered Voters to Districts and Precincts”(blog post)

• Brian Amos
• Michael McDonald

Katy Owens Hubler (Democracy Research) (slides)

Chair: Tammy Patrick (Democracy Fund)

Panelists:

• Lance Gough (Chicago Board of Elections)
• Paul Linnell (Anoka County, MN)
• Scott McDonell (Dane County, WI)
• Meagan Wolfe (Wisconsin Elections Commission)

Chair: Jan Leighley (American University)

Discussants:

•  Lonna Atkeson (University of New Mexico)
• Kevin Kennedy (Kennedy Election Law Services)

Presentations

“Election Administration Spending in Local Election Jurisdictions: Results from a Nationwide Data Collection Project” (blog post)

• Zachary Mohr
• Martha Kropf
• JoEllen Pope
• Mary Jo Shepherd
• Madison Esterle

“Maintaining the Machinery of Democracy: Assessing the Quality of Voting Equipment in the 21st Century” (blog post)

• Nadine Gibson

“The Costs of Ranked Choice Voting” (blog post)

• Christopher Rhode