Voting Technology, Vote-by-Mail, and Residual Votes in California, 1990-2010

This paper examines how the growth in vote-by-mail and changes in voting technologies led to changes in the residual vote rate in California from 1990 to 2010. We find that in California’s presidential elections, counties that abandoned punch cards in favor of optical scanning enjoyed a significant...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Alvarez, R. Michael, Stewart III, Charles H., Beckett, Dustin
Format: Working Paper
Language:en_US
Published: Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project 2015
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/96633