The bill would create a four-member bipartisan Election Assistance Commission to evaluate election equipment and develop voluntary standards.
When evaluating election issues for politicians or office holders, their past responsibility can indicate how they will act in the position they're running for.
It is on the basis of their opportunities for keeping track of legislative work that people can evaluate elected representatives and subsequently make decisions in general elections.
Most recently (2013) she published Evaluating Elections: Tools for Improvement with co-authors R. Michael Alvarez and Thad Hall that provides long-term strategies for election administrators to continually evaluate and improve elections.
Perhaps it is time to evaluate our election process, which is plagued by the absence of serious debate over ideas.
The American Association for Public Opinion Research already had a committee in place to evaluate pre-election polling prior to Election Day.
Most of these studies, however, seek to evaluate effects on elections held months or even years later.
Nearly every forecast that evaluates the election based on state polls seems to hint at a very slight lead for Mr. Obama in the popular vote, along with in the Electoral College.
When variables are highly correlated, regression analysis is less useful, especially with only 11 elections to evaluate to differentiate between them.
Perhaps the Gallup poll accounts for 5 or 10 percent of the information that an election analyst should evaluate on a given day.
