THE PROMISE AND PITFALLS OF ELECTRONIC VOTING: RESULTS FROM A USABIITY FIELD TEST* Paul S. Herrnson Center for American Politics and Citizenship Department of Government and Politics University of Maryland College Park, MD 20742 pherrnson@capc.umd.edu (301) 405-4123 Richard G. Niemi Department of Political Science University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627 niemi@rochester.edu (585) 275-5364 Michael J. Hanmer Department of Government Georgetown University, Washington, DC 20057 mjh72@georgetown.edu (202) 687-5580 Peter L. Francia Department of Political Science East Carolina University Greenville, NC 27858 franciap@mail.ecu.edu (252) 328-6126 Benjamin B. Bederson Human-Computer Interaction Lab Computer Science Department, Institute for Advanced Computer Studies University of Maryland College Park, MD 20742 bederson@cs.umd.edu (301) 405-2764 Fred Conrad Survey Research Center University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 fconrad@umich.edu (734) 936-1019 Michael Traugott Center for Political Studies University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 mtrau@umich.edu (734) 763-4702 *This work was supported in part by National Science Foundation, grant number – 0306698 and Carnegie Corporation, grant number – D05008. We wish to acknowledge the following individuals for assisting us with the field tests: Aaron Clamage and Jennifer McLernon, Nathan Bigelow, Jeffrey Davis, Gola Javadi, Jennifer Katkin, Lauraine Maxime, Juliana Menasce Horowitz, Shanna Pearson-Merkowitz, Nezam Rabonik, Lucas Radzinschi, Randy Roberson, and Tope Yusuf in College Park, Arnab Datta and Emily Hickey in Rochester, and Corie D'Angelo, Loren Goldman, Neill Mohammad, Emilia Peytcheva, Joshua Sellers, Dale, Vieregge, and Ann Williams in Ann Arbor.