2014 Ethnographies and Focus Groups

FVAP Ethnographic Research Screener

Local Election Official (LEO)

Recruit Overview

No. of participants: 2 per county/city

Duration: Mini-ethnography will last roughly 2 hours

Start time: TBD based on schedules of both LEOs. Ethnos to be done back to back,

same day.

Incentive: None

Job Role: One of each:

1) Processing ballot requests & sending out ballots to overseas voters

2) Processing incoming ballots from overseas voters and processing final results.

Introduction:

Hello, my name is (name) and I’m calling from Lake Research Partners on behalf of FVAP (EFF-VAP)

We are working with FVAP to conduct a research study about overseas voting.

To see if you qualify, I first have to ask you some questions.

1. Which of the following best describes your role in working with US voters living overseas:

Processing ballot requests ETHNO 1 1

Sending ballots to overseas voters ETHNO 1 2

Processing ballots received from overseas voters ETHNO 2 3

Tallying and reporting the final votes ETHNO 2 4

Other TERMINATE 5

(REFUSE) TERMINATE 6

Demographics

2. Could you please tell me roughly how many people work in your election department?

RECORD ______

3. Roughly, how many ballots were cast in your state/county/township?

RECORD ______

4. Out of those (BALLOT COUNT FROM Q3) roughly how many ballots were cast from overseas voters?

RECORD ______

ETHNO INVITATION

READ: We would like to invite you to participate in this exciting study on overseas voting. One or two researchers would meet you where you processed ballots for the November 2012 General Election on DAY, DATE to learn from you how the process works. As part of the study, you will demonstrate for the researcher a ballot processing simulation. You should plan on spending about 2 hours for the research session.

Would you like to participate in our study?

EXPLAIN/CONFIRM:

• DATE & TIME:

• THEY SHOULD PLAN ON DOING WHATEVER THEY WOULD NORMALLY DO WHEN THEY PROCESS BALLOT REQUESTS/BALLOTS. WE WANT TO SEE WHAT THEY NORMALLY DO AND WHAT THEIR WORK ENVIRONMENT IS LIKE.

NAME :___________________________________________________

JOB TITLE: __________________________________________________

CITY/TOWN: _______________________________________________

DAY PHONE: _______________________________________________

CELL PHONE: ___________________________________________

EMAIL ADDRESS: ____________________________________________

DATE: _____________________________________________________

RECRUITER:_________________________________________________

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