Using Spatial Techniques and Counterfactual Design to Examine Voting System Performance

Autor:	Iris Hui
Rok vydání:	2013
Předmět:	Counterfactual thinking Geographic information system Operations research business.industry media_common.quotation_subject Percentage point Residual Discontinuity (linguistics) Ballot Geography Voting Causal inference business Law media_common
Zdroj:	Election Law Journal: Rules, Politics, and Policy. 12:277-292
ISSN:	1557-8062 1533-1296
DOI:	10.1089/elj.2011.0125
Popis:	This article proposes an alternative research design using geographic discontinuity to assess the performance of voting systems, focusing on InkaVote, a voting system employed in Los Angeles County, California. It also demonstrates how a geographic information system (GIS) can be integrated with statistical analyses to improve causal inference. With this new methodology, the article compares the performance of the InkaVote system in the 2004 and 2006 elections and examines whether the introduction of a paper ballot reader (PBR) in 2006 improved the performance of the system. The findings show that the PBR implementation was effective, as it reduced the residual vote rate by about one percentage point.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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