Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: ELECTION SYSTEMS, TECHNIQUES, AND ADMINISTRATION

Department: Political Science

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This multidisciplinary course will consider how elections are conducted to enhance participation, to accurately measure the will of the elctorate, and to be sufficiently rigorous to convive all parties that the results are legitimate. This course will consider the design and evaluation of election technologies, ranging from voter registration through the polling booth and vote tabulation. This course will consider three questions: how do individual voters interact with the voting technology, how are voting technologies engineered to be accurate and secure, and how do the social aspects of voting fulfill democratic goals for elections? A central requirement for this course will be group research projects, many operating in our community, built around the November 2006 election.