Eligibility challenges are often based on residence that is, a voter does not live at the address given on the voter rolls and groups have often used "caging", in which mass mailings are sent out and returned mail used to challenge a voter's eligibility to purge voter rolls.
This information, however, was not given on the voter registration form or the Franklin County Board of Elections Web site at the time that we registered.
Blackwell also ruled that provisional ballots (those given to voters not found on the rolls) had to be cast in the right precinct, as opposed to simply the right county.
According to the letter, the observers were being given incomplete information on voter identification requirements and assistance available for handicapped voters.
Mrs. Clinton's speech came just after her campaign manager, Maggie Williams, sent a letter to David Plouffe, Barack Obama's campaign manager, urging that their rival teams cooperate on giving Florida and Michigan voters a say in the nominating process.
Most analysis indicates that the effect on any given voter's decision-making is minimal – with the exception of a positive effect in a vice-presidential nominee's home state.
Editor's Note: David Binetti is the CEO and co-founder of Votizen, a consumer technology company based in Mountain View, CA focussed on giving voters a greater voice.
Since then, there have been complaints that employees of this firm haven't been given the correct training, the instructions on voter ID they're giving are often confusing and contradictory and overall it has been an incompetent (if not willingly bad) job.
Porter is now lauded among data geeks for figuring out during the Obama campaign how to build a persuasion model, which gives every voter a score on open to persuasion he or she might be.
Given voters' limited cognitive abilities, the learning environments voters face may have implications for how voters learn and make decisions.
