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Lower transaction costs have shifted voter registration activities online and away from traditional modes of outreach. Downloading forms may impose higher transaction costs than traditional outreach for some people and thereby decrease electoral participation. A randomized, controlled experiment tested this hypothesis by encouraging treatment participants via e-mail to use online voter registration tools. The treatment group was 0.3 percentage points less likely to be registered to vote after the election. A follow-up experiment sent reminders via text message to randomly selected people who had downloaded registration forms. The treatment increased rates of registration by 4 percentage points, suggesting that reminders can ameliorate many of the negative effects of directing people to downloadable online registration forms. Adapted from the source document.

A former representative for Scotland on the Council of the College of Health Care Chaplain (CHCC), and while in post, chair of the CHCC Professional Services and Registration Group, reflects on the questions, issues and process of professional registration for healthcare chaplains.

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The 1944 action of the Supreme Court voiding the white primary ended the last effective legal block to Negro voter registration in the South. After that, resort to legal steps to block Negro registration was either outlawed by the courts or else could only be a delaying device. In the state of Louisiana, however, the decision in Smith v. Allwright did not result in Negro registration comparable to white registration. In 1956, twelve years later, 30 percent of the potential Negro voting population was registered, compared to 73 percent of the whites. This study is an investigation of some factors in that discrepancy, and in particular, of the differences in registration between Catholic and Protestant areas.An important characteristic of Negro registration in Louisiana is the extreme range of variation to be found among the several parishes. Table I shows 17 parishes with fewer than 20 percent of the eligible Negroes registered, and 11 parishes with 70 percent or more of the potential Negro vote registered. Therefore, the statewide "average" percentage of Negro registration has little meaning without more detailed interpretation.

'Hilliard' (Reg. no. CV-1163, PI 676271), a soft red winter (SRW) wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) developed and tested as VA11W-108 by the Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station, was released in March 2015. Hilliard was derived from the cross '25R47'/'Jamestown'. Hilliard is widely adapted, from Texas to Ontario, Canada, and provides producers with a mid-season, medium height, awned, semi-dwarf (Rht2) cul tivar that has very high yield potential, good straw strength, and intermediate grain volume weight and quality. It expresses moderate to high levels of resistance to most diseases prevalent in the eastern United States and Ontario. In the 2016-2018 USDA-ARS Uniform SRW Wheat nurseries, Hilliard ranked first in grain yield in the southern nursery across all 3 yr (5,147-5,758 kg ha(-1)). In the uniform eastern nursery, it ranked first for grain yield in 2016 (6,159 kg ha(-1)) and 2017 (5,633 kg ha(-1)) and second in 2018 (5,515 kg ha(-1)). Grain volume weights of Hilliard were similar to overall trial averages in the uniform southern (73.4-75.2 kg hl(-1)) and eastern (70-75.8 kg hl(-1)) nurseries. Hilliard has soft grain texture with flour softness equivalent values varying from 58.1 to 61.7 g 100 g(-1). Straight grade flour yields on a Quadrumat Senior mill varied from 66.8 to 68.4 g kg(-1). Flour protein concentration varied from 7.0 to 9.1 g 100 g(-1) and gluten strength from 108 to 128 g 100 g(-1), as measured by lactic acid solvent retention capacity. Cookie spread diameter varied from 18.3 to 18.6 cm. ; U.S. Wheat and Barley Scab InitiativeUnited States Department of Agriculture (USDA) [59-0206-9-084]; Hatch Program of the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) [59-0790-4-102]; USDA-ARS Specific Cooperative AgreementUnited States Department of Agriculture (USDA)USDA Agricultural Research Service [58-6645-00-108]; NIFATriticeae Coordinated Agricultural Project [2011-68002-30029] ; U.S. Wheat and Barley Scab Initiative, Grant/Award Number: 59-0206-9-084; Hatch Program of the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA), Grant/Award Number: 59-0790-4-102; USDA-ARS Specific Cooperative Agreement, Grant/Award Number: 58-6645-00-108; NIFATriticeae Coordinated Agricultural Project, Grant/Award Number: 2011-68002-30029 ; Public domain authored by a U.S. government employee

An inquiry as to whether religio-cultural variables in the South, long celebrated as the 'Bible-belt' of the nation, are related to Negro-White pol'al relationships insofar as these can be defined by practices & att's toward Negro registration. The findings emphasize the importance of religio-cultural factors in defining White att's & practices toward Negro registration. In the southern French-Catholic parishes of Louisiana the % of Negroes registered is more than twice as great as in the northern Anglo-Saxon Protestant parishes. SE factors, urbanism & Negro-White pop balance, account for some of the diff. Yet where non-religious cultural factors are held constant, as in cotton plantation areas with large Negro pop's, the religio-cultural variable emerges as a clearly influential factor in Negro registration. AA-IPSA.

Lower transaction costs have shifted voter registration activities online and away from traditional modes of outreach. Downloading forms may impose higher transaction costs than traditional outreach for some people and thereby decrease electoral participation. A randomized, controlled experiment tested this hypothesis by encouraging treatment participants via e-mail to use online voter registration tools. The treatment group was 0.3 percentage points less likely to be registered to vote after the election. A follow-up experiment sent reminders via text message to randomly selected people who had downloaded registration forms. The treatment increased rates of registration by 4 percentage points, suggesting that reminders can ameliorate many of the negative effects of directing people to downloadable online registration forms.