Using Recounts to Measure the Accuracy of Vote Tabulations: Evidence from New Hampshire Elections 1946-2002

The 2000 presidential election exposed a surprisingly high level of inaccuracy in the tabulation of ballots. Differences between total vallots cast and votes counted were as high as 19 percent in some counties in Florida, and these discrepancies were widely attributed to the ballot formats, the hand...

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Main Authors: Ansolabehere, Stephen, Reeves, Andrew
Format: Working Paper
Language:en_US
Published: Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project 2015
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/96548