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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Main Authors: Stewart III, Charles H, Alvarez, R. Michael, Pettigrew, Stephen S., Wimpy, Cameron
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Political Science
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2020
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/128739