Interstate voter registration database matching: The Oregon-Washington 2008 pilot project

EVT/WOTE 2009 - 2009 Electronic Voting Technology Workshop/Workshop on Trustworthy Elections

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Michael Alvarez, R ^a   Jonas, Jeff ^b   Winkler, William E ^c   Wright, Rebecca N ^d  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b IBM Entity Analytics

^c Bureau of the Census

^d Rutgers University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; VOTING MACHINES;

DATABASE MATCHING; MATCHING ALGORITHM; PILOT PROJECTS; TWO-STATE; WASHINGTON;

ELECTRONIC VOTING;

EID: 85048686662     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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