Research

Experimental Analysis of VBM Ballot Rejection

Michael Herndon "Does Jamal's Vote Count Less Than James'? An Online Experiment of White Racial Attitudes and Election-Related Signature Rejection".

Paper Presented at ESRA 2024

Does Jamal's Vote Count Less Than James?

Observational Analysis of VBM Ballot Rejection

Michael Herndon "Partisanship and Racial Bias in Signature Matching: Explaining the Ballot Rejection Gap in an Era of Vote by Mail"

Paper Presented at WPSA 2023

WPSA 2023.docx

Working Papers

Michael Herndon. “Does Jamal’s Vote Count Less Than James’? How Racial Attitudes Affect Signature Rejection”. Presented at 2024 Election Science, Reform, and Administration Conference (ESRA).

Michael Herndon. "Local Partisanship and Racial Gaps in VBM Ballot Rejection". Presented at 2023 Western Political Science Association (WPSA).

Matt Barreto, Michael Herndon, Chelsea Jones, & Tye Rush. “Catalysts of Insurrection: How White Affect Towards Racial Out-Groups Influenced Beliefs of Voter Fraud and Support for the January 6th Insurrection”. Forthcoming at the Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics. Conditionally Accepted at Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics.

Michael Herndon & Kassra Oskooii. "Using an Online Survey Experiment to Measure Racial Bias in VBM Signature Review" Submitting to Political Research Quarterly.

Michael Herndon & Rogerio Aristida Guimaraes Junior. “Artificial Intelligence in Election Administration: Is Automatic Signature Verification (ASV) Biased?” Submitted to the 2025 International Conference of Computer Vision (ICCV).