Laura Stoker

Election coverage has become almost synonymous with showcasing the latest poll. During an election, national media outlets are overrun with polls showing which candidate is ahead and what topics people are most concerned about. 

Before they were our illustrious gatekeepers of knowledge and information, UC Berkeley professors and lecturers were just like us: scraping by on hard-earned tips, scoring coveted research positions and all the while scrubbing the dishes of some stranger.

Philip Stark, a campus statistics professor, and Ronald Rivest, a computer science professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, wrote a USA Today op-ed earlier this month requesting election officials to use a risk-limiting audit for each state’s ballots.

UC President Janet Napolitano will headline a fundraiser Sept. 20 for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign — an unprecedented action for a UC president.

Two students at the UC Berkeley School of Law have helped draft state legislation that would automatically register select college students to vote.

Researchers studying how to best bring underrepresented-minority voters to the polls have found that new technologies such as texting and social media are not as effective as more personal forms of outreach.

Liberal and conservative voters exhibit different responses to gender stereotypes of female candidates, according to research conducted by a UC Berkeley political science doctoral student.

Of the more than 800,000 Alameda County citizens registered to vote, only about 28 percent of residents voted in this year’s midterm elections — not including mail-in ballots — a turnout markedly lower than the 2012 presidential election and the 2010 election.

Californians can now register to vote from their computers, thanks to an online voter registration system launched Wednesday