[EL] Voter registration by race

[Carl Klarner]

Hi All,

In summary, you have four different categories of states.

1) State doesn't ask race on voter registration form.

2) State asks race but doesn't make data public, even in voter file
(i.e., CA, which Eric just told us)

3) States ask for race, and it's a field in voter files if you
purchase the voter file, but the state doesn't make public aggregate
stats on this.  FL is an example.

4) States ask about race, and they make the data public in aggregate
files, either at the state, county or maybe even precinct level (not
sure about the latter): GA, LA, NC, SC and WA are examples (those are
the states that report turnout by race by county, there may be more
that report registrants x race x county).

Carl


On Thu, Jun 7, 2018 at 4:56 PM, Larry Levine <larrylevine at earthlink.net> wrote:
> You underestimate the surname capability in CA. We can do not just
> Asian-American, but Japanese, Chinese, Chinese or may be Korean, Korean,
> Korean or may be Chinese, Armenian, likely Jewish, and a host of others. The
> African-American select is a whole lot more sophisticated than just a guess.
> We also have country of origin/birth on the registration file. It why we are
> so good at targeting messages and why most of the rest of the country and
> out-of-state consultants don’t understand what we do.
>
> Larry
>
>
>
> From: Law-election <law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu> On Behalf
> Of Eric McGhee
> Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2018 1:39 PM
> To: Carl Klarner <carl.klarner at gmail.com>; John Tanner
> <john.k.tanner at gmail.com>
>
>
> Cc: law-election at department-lists.uci.edu
> Subject: Re: [EL] Voter registration by race
>
>
>
> CA doesn’t make voter registration by race available.  Best you can do is
> surname match for Latino and Asian-American, plus a more approximate guess
> for African-American.
>
>
>
> From: Law-election [mailto:law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu] On
> Behalf Of Carl Klarner
> Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2018 1:02 PM
> To: John Tanner <john.k.tanner at gmail.com>
> Cc: law-election at department-lists.uci.edu
> Subject: Re: [EL] Voter registration by race
>
>
>
> Here's the spreadsheet with other info about what's on voter
> registration forms.
>
> On Thu, Jun 7, 2018 at 3:56 PM, Carl Klarner <carl.klarner at gmail.com> wrote:
>> And obviously ND doesn't have voter reg.
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 7, 2018 at 3:51 PM, John Tanner <john.k.tanner at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>> so do Alabama, Florida, and Georgia
>>>
>>> On Jun 7, 2018, at 3:24 PM, Christian Robert Grose <cgrose at usc.edu>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> South Carolina and Louisiana ask for voter race and make data available.
>>>
>>> ------------
>>> Christian Grose
>>> Associate Professor of Political Science and Public Policy
>>> University of Southern California
>>> http://dornsife.usc.edu/cf/faculty-and-staff/faculty.cfm?pid=1032675
>>>
>>> ________________________________
>>> From: Law-election <law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu> on
>>> behalf
>>> of Edelman, Paul <paul.edelman at Law.Vanderbilt.Edu>
>>> Sent: Thursday, June 7, 2018 12:21:40 PM
>>> To: law-election at department-lists.uci.edu
>>> Subject: [EL] Voter registration by race
>>>
>>> I recall reading somewhere that some states ask about a potential voter’s
>>> race on the voter registration form. Is that right? If so, does anyone
>>> have
>>> a list of which states do so? Thanks.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> PHE
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Paul H. Edelman
>>> Professor of Mathematics and Law
>>> Vanderbilt University
>>> paul.edelman at vanderbilt.edu
>>> 615-322-0990
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