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The Street‐Level Bureaucrats of Elections: Selection Methods for Local Election Officials

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  • David C. Kimball
  • Martha Kropf

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The 2000 presidential election and the recount battle in Florida focused attention on local election administration in the United States. The Help America Vote Act, passed by the federal government in 2002, requires wholesale changes in voting equipment and other election procedures. However, the law did not address the selection of individuals who manage elections: both state and local election officials play a great role implementing federal and state election laws. Recently, several election reform advocates have argued for shifting to nonpartisan election administrators in the United States. Others, particularly associations representing election officials, have not endorsed that position. To inform this debate, we provide data on the selection methods and party affiliations for all local election officials in the United States (more than 4,500 individuals or commissions). We find considerable variation in the methods used to select state and local election officials in the United States.

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  • David C. Kimball & Martha Kropf, 2006. "The Street‐Level Bureaucrats of Elections: Selection Methods for Local Election Officials," Review of Policy Research, Policy Studies Organization, vol. 23(6), pages 1257-1268, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:revpol:v:23:y:2006:i:6:p:1257-1268
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-1338.2006.00258.x
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    1. Kenneth Lowande & Andrew Proctor, 2020. "Bureaucratic Responsiveness to LGBT Americans," American Journal of Political Science, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 64(3), pages 664-681, July.
    2. Markie McBrayer & R. Lucas Williams & Andrea Eckelman, 2020. "Local Officials as Partisan Operatives: The Effect of County Officials on Early Voting Administration," Social Science Quarterly, Southwestern Social Science Association, vol. 101(4), pages 1475-1488, July.
    3. Apoorva Lal & Daniel M Thompson, 2023. "Did Private Election Administration Funding Advantage Democrats in 2020?," Papers 2310.05275, arXiv.org.
    4. Mary Jo McGowan & JoEllen V. Pope & Martha E. Kropf & Zachary Mohr, 2021. "Guns or Butter… or Elections? Understanding intertemporal and distributive dimensions of policy choice through the examination of budgetary tradeoffs at the local level," Public Budgeting & Finance, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 41(4), pages 3-19, December.

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