Browsing Publications and Working Papers by Subject "Residual votes"
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Residual Votes Attributable to Technology: An Assessment of the Reliability of Existing Voting Equipment
(Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2001-03-30)American elections are conducted using a hodge-podge of different voting technologies: paper ballots, lever machines, punch cards, optically scanned ballots, and electronic machines. And the technologies we use change ... -
Studying Elections: Data Quality and Pitfalls in Measuring the Effects of Voting Technologies
(Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2004-11)Professor Geralyn Miller reminds us of the range of voting administration practices across the United States. We use this variability to study the average performance of various types of voting equipment throughout the ... -
Who Overvotes, Who Undervotes, Using Punchcards? Evidence from Los Angeles County
(Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2003-09-09)In this study we examine over- and undervotes from the November 2000 General Election in Los Angeles County. Los Angeles County is the nation's largest election jurisdiction and it used a punchcard voting system in that ...