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November 2002 Misvotes, undervotes and overvotes: The 2000 presidential election in Florida
Alan Agresti, Brett Presnell
Statist. Sci. 17(4): 436-440 (November 2002). DOI: 10.1214/ss/1049993202

Abstract

The 2000 presidential election was the most controversial U.S. election in recent history, mainly due to the disputed outcome of the election in Florida. Elsewhere in this issue, Richard Smith analyzes the high vote for Pat Buchanan in Palm Beach county. As background for his article, we summarize this and other voting-related issues that may have affected the outcome of the election in Florida, such as the undervote in counties that used a punch-card ballot and the overvote in counties that used multicolumn and multipage ballots.

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Alan Agresti. Brett Presnell. "Misvotes, undervotes and overvotes: The 2000 presidential election in Florida." Statist. Sci. 17 (4) 436 - 440, November 2002. https://doi.org/10.1214/ss/1049993202

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Published: November 2002
First available in Project Euclid: 10 April 2003

zbMATH: 1062.91534
MathSciNet: MR1977138
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1214/ss/1049993202

Keywords: ballot design , outlier , regression

Rights: Copyright © 2002 Institute of Mathematical Statistics

Vol.17 • No. 4 • November 2002
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