[EL] PA vote count "delays"

[Morgan Kousser]

Hi All,
      Doug makes a very good point that ballot counting in California 
may be (even) slower this year due to the more widespread adoption of 
the Voters Choice Act, which was initially implemented by five counties 
in 2018.  One friendly amendment is that Los Angeles County has elected 
to adopt the new Vote Center model, but will *not* be required to mail a 
ballot to every registered voter -- the state legislation creating the 
new voting model exempted Los Angeles from this requirement at the same 
time that it pushed the county to have more in-person Vote Centers than 
other adopting counties.  Mindy Romero (USC), Eric McGhee (PPIC) and I 
discuss this crucial difference, and summarize the impact of the Voters 
Choice Act in 2018, in the following op-ed: 
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-kousser-mcghee-romero-elections-vote20190531-story.html
         And along with ten faculty members at five University of 
California campuses, I have been studying the impact of this and other 
voting changes in California on turnout and, crucially, the composition 
of the electorate, to see whether the reforms are making voters more 
representative of the population.  Research briefs summarizing our first 
six studies are available at newelectorateproject.org.
            Best, Thad

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