Dear STAT 202 Students, their friends, and other AU students: 

Thank you for taking the time to participate in this survey. Without
your help, this project could not happen!

If you are in STAT202-004 and are doing this for class credit, you
need to collect at least 40 interviews, at least 25 of which are of
random people, that is - students whose names you don't know and who
are not in your classes.  You may collect extra friend interviews.

Start by asking people if they mind answering a few questions about
their voting experience, but assure them you won't ask who they voted
for.

If you are a friend of a STAT 202 student who is doing this for credit,
and this is someone whose name you have known since at least last week,
then you can give them credit for the interview by putting their email
address or name in the AUID box. (I inspect the data manually.) Record
it as a self report but still put their name in the box to give them
credit.

If you are an AU student who received this link from social media or
email etc, we welcome your input! You do not have to enter anything
into the AUID box.

If a student came up to you in person and requested that you do this
survey, please be kind and enter the student's ID into the AUID box so
he/she will get credit for the interview.

All: If you make an error and submit the form, you can come back and
just hit the "log error" button. I am tracking time and IP address of
the responses primarily for this puprpose, so I can match up the error
with the same user who made the error. I will never try to find
someone based on their IP address. (However, if there is an IP address
which comes from outside of the country, I would delete that entry!)
Survey results are to be confidential.  The expectation is that nearly
all responses will be from the DC area with potentially a few from
other places in the US, if there are students who answer the survey
from some location other than AU.

The target community is active AU students. 

I will collect your data if you are not from AU, but this survey is
intended for them. In the notes, tell me where you are from.

If your story is too complex to explain easily in the notes, please
email me at dietz@american.edu if you wish.

Thank you again!

Donna Dietz
dietz@american.edu