Abstention, Protest, and Residual Votes in the 2016 Election
Objective: We analyze the significant increase in the residual vote rate in the 2016 presidential election. The residual vote rate, which is the percentage of ballots cast in a presidential election that contain no vote for president, rose nationwide from 0.99 to 1.41 percent between 2012 and 2016....
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Language: | English |
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Wiley
2020
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Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/128739 |