[EL] State Voter Files?

[Edward Still]

Recent news reports have mentioned the voter files maintained by each of
the major national parties. Trump recently signed up to use the GOP file;
Sanders' staff viewed Clinton's notes about the Dem file.

Each of the parties cleans up the file with additional data and enhances
the file with all sorts of consumer databases so they can correlate, for
instance, the ordering of Honeybaked Hams with voting Republican (I don't
know if that is still a correlation, but I read about 20 years ago).

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On Sat, Jan 23, 2016 at 11:25 AM, Jan Leighley <leighley at american.edu>
wrote:

> Paul Gronke, Michael McDonald and other academics studying turnout have
> documented the many challenges of working with state voter files, and how
> those challenges really limit the use of those files in studying voter
> turnout and election administration.  I'm wondering how many others have
> slogged through this work--and succeeded or given up . . . and whether it
> would make sense for us to find a way to collect, process and make
> available more "usable" files to researchers?  It wouldn't be an easy lift
> . . . so the question I have now is how useful the elections research
> community might find such a resource?
>
> I would appreciate hearing from members directly about past efforts to
> deal with the files, as well as whether any on-going or future work would
> benefit from such a collective effort.
>
> Jan Leighley
> American University
>
>
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