ElectionSmith, Inc. works with clients to provide detailed analysis, research reports, and expert witness declarations and affidavits, with a particular expertise in signature gathering and petitioning, ballot titling, public opinion on ballot measures and their “educative effects,” and the effectiveness of public disclosure campaign finance laws regulating ballot measures (initiatives and referendums). We also provide empirical analysis on voting rights, redistricting, and candidate campaigning financing in the American states.
Drawing on 20 years of academic research, ElectionSmith specializes in data collection and analysis of a variety of issues related to electoral politics in the American states, especially direct democracy issue campaigns. Led by Dr. Daniel A. Smith, University of Florida Research Foundation Professor (2010-2012) of Political Science and past Director of the Political Campaigning Program, the talented team at ElectionSmith has provided assistance to petitioners and respondents in numerous local, state, and federal ballot issue cases around the country, as well cases dealing with candidate campaign financing, redistricting, and voting rights. Dr. Smith’s expert testimony and empirical research has shaped the decisions of cases decided by Florida courts, the Colorado Supreme Court, the Maryland Court of Appeals, the 9th, 10th, and 11th United States Courts of Appeal, and the Supreme Court of the United States, in the 2010 case, Doe v. Reed.
Dr. Smith’s C.V., which includes a list of his publications as well as clients and related court cases, is available here.
For more information, please email us at Electionsmith. You can also follow Dr. Smith on Twitter.
