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Who Overvotes, Who Undervotes, Using Punchcards? Evidence from Los Angeles County

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Sinclair, D. E. "Betsy"; Alvarez, R. Michael
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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 election. We use precincts as our unit of analysis and merge the 2000 election data with census data and voter registration data; our dataset allows us to examine all of the countywide races in 2000 (including candidate and ballot measures). We use a multivariate statistical analysis employing negative binomial regression to test hypotheses regarding the relationship between precincts' political and demographic characteristics and over- and undervotes. We demonstrate that both over- and undervotes vary systematically across precincts in Los Angeles County, a finding that we argue has important implications for the representation of political interests.
Date issued
2003-09-09
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http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/96544
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Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project
Series/Report no.
VTP Working Paper Series;7
Keywords
Demographics, Undervotes, Overvotes, Punchcards, Residual votes, Los Angeles County

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