Prepared for presentation at the 2007 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, August 30–Sept 2.
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Abstract: Controversies about elections are not exactly commonplace, but neither are they rare. In recent years a suite of statistical tools has been developed for diagnosing election anomalies and possibly detecting election fraud. One set of tests focus on patterns in the digits of reported vote counts. I compare the results of such testing to the judgments reached by various sets of election monitors and observers, focusing on four elections: Ohio in the U.S. presidential election in 2004; the presidential election in Mexico in 2006; the 2001 General Election in Bangladesh; and the 2004 presidential election in Indonesia. The statistical tests broadly but not completely agree with observers’ conclusions.
Bibtex:
@misc{,
AUTHOR = {Mebane, Walter R.},
TITLE = {Election Forensics: Statistical Interventions in Election Controversies},
HOWPUBLISHED = {\url{http://www-personal.umich.edu/~wmebane/apsa07.pdf}},
YEAR = {2007};
NOTE = {last accessed Sep 30, 2015},
}
Reference Type: Conference Paper
Subject Area(s): Political Science