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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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | en_US |
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Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project
2015
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/96633 |