Michael P. McDonald’s research while affiliated with University of Florida and other places

... To be sure, voters who cast mail ballots implicitly accept these added restrictions in exchange for the convenience of voting remotely. As a result of the coronavirus pandemic, millions of voters shifted to mail voting in the 2020 election, as the use of mail ballots across the states hit record highs, including in Florida (McDonald et al. 2024). ...

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Vote Method and Confidence in Elections

... We also consider the possibility that parties may change for reasons bearing little relationship to factions. Increased partisanship at both the mass and elite levels may stem from a secular trend towards greater polarization, especially on the right (Arceneaux, Johnson, and Murphy 2012;Druckman, Peterson, and Slothuus 2013;Prior 2013), institutional factors such as redistricting (Altman and McDonald 2015;Carson, Engstrom, and Roberts 2007), or the novel candidacy of Donald Trump. To address these possibilities, we isolate the impact of factionalism through our identification strategy. ...

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How Local Factions Pressure Parties: Activist Groups and Primary Contests in the Tea Party Era

... This reflects that the tools were inaccessible, had limited capacities and were complicated to use, and above all, were extremely costly. The situation began to change in the 1990s, when the first commercial GIS tools appeared on the market (Altman & McDonald, 2019). These were more powerful and user-friendly. ...

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Using geoinformation tools for redistricting: Slovenian experiences

... For instance, Merino et al. present a system that allows voters to create indistinguishable real and fake credentials to mitigate coercion concerns when using an untrusted device to register to vote [47]. Another line of work attempts to detect anomalies in public voter registration lists using statistical models [15,17,24,60,62]. Some have proposed using blockchains to store voters' data [55], though only as part of a broader design for an electronic-only voting system. ...

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Cryptographic Verifiability for Voter Registration Systems

... Altman and McDonald [81] generated 1 million plans and threw out 850,000. They found about 17 new plans for every 20 rejections at the one millionth iteration, showing that there are a vast number of plans that could potentially be generated. ...

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Seed-Fill-Shift-Repair: A redistricting heuristic for civic deliberation

... Instead, they manage their voter registration databases using master street address files that identify which precinct each street address range is located in (e.g., even numbered 100-198 Main Street is associated with precinct 1). When we geocode voter registration files during our quality assurance protocols we may detect errors in these master street address files when we observe a street range assigned to one precinct while surrounding neighbors are assigned to another 23 . We have consulted with the Colorado and Virginia state governments to identify and rectify these errors, and alerted numerous localities elsewhere of potential issues. ...

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United States Precinct Boundaries and Statewide Partisan Election Results

... The study revealed that there was limited literature in the area of user participation approaches, especially in the public electronic service development, which makes this study vital, to fill this knowledge gap. More so, egovernment implementation can succeed where users directly participate or intensify control of eproject systems via some actors, thus concentrating power and ownership among the end users (McDonald & Altman, 2018;Kagoya & Mbamba, 2019). This study suggests that, to attain egovernment implementation success in the Ugandan context, top management support must moderate the relationship between user attributes and e-government implementation. ...

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The Moderating Effect of Top Management Support on Key Attributes to E-government Implementation Success in Developing Countries: A study of Ugandan Ministries

... However, the current study used a two-survey method with a significant time gap (four years) to capture consumers' changing viewpoints. It is common in research in different disciplines (DeBell et al. 2020;Medolla 2024), as well as in the Australian Census (Australian Bureau of Statistics [ABS], n.d.), to capture data with a 4-5-year gap to check changes in society or in a specific behaviour. In the current study, 290 participants took part in Study 1 and 201 in Study 2: These sample sizes were consistent with those in similar past studies (Curina et al. 2020;Habib et al. 2023;Park, Hyun, and Thavisay 2021;. ...

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Changing Nature of Consumer Values Toward Negative Word of Mouth: Voice and Risk Avoidance as Moderators

... Other variables identified as significant, including competition, party, opponent quality, ideology, and district demographics, are largely consistent with the models in Culberson et al. (2019). Time in office is associated with a negative coefficient, which is consistent with their finding that freshman candidates raise more in small contributions than more senior peers. ...

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Senior Discount? Gender, Age, and Small Donor Fundraising

... La tecnología y su gestión ha tenido importantes aportes e impactos en los procesos electorales. Adam y Fazekas (2021) y Trelles et al. (2016) resaltan cómo las tecnologías de información y comunicaciones (TIC) han incidido en la lucha contra la corrupción apoyando procesos gubernamentales, al impulsar la transparencia, facilitar la rendición de cuentas y promover una mayor participación de la ciudadanía en una amplia gama de actividades, incluidas las relativas al ciclo electoral. Empero, estos autores aclaran que la tecnología per se no es la panacea, puesto que también es útil para la corrupción y sus vulnerabilidades pueden favorecerla, lo que evidencia que resulta clave su gestión, así como el contexto en el que se implemente. ...

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Gestión de tecnología en el escrutinio electoral en Colombia