Automated Signature Verification of Mail-In Ballots: Trust, Blame and Calibration

• In Event: Voting Rules and Election Administration

Brief Overview

We evaluate five experiments on public trust in the systems used to check signature matches in mail-in ballots. We find little difference in trust between automated and non-automated systems.

Authors

• Ryan P. Kennedy, University of Houston

• Lydia Brashear Tiede, University of Houston

• Adam Ozer, University of Houston

• Nikolay Marinov, University of Houston