Detecting and Correcting Election Irregularities

The following are research papers focused on evaluating elections for the purpose of detecting and correcting problems in electoral administration and voting technologies

Overviews and Theory

Detecting and Correcting Election Irregularities
Walter R. Mebane, Jr., Jasjeet S. Sekhon, and Jonathan Wand

Auditing an Election Using Sampling: The impact of bin size on the probability of detecting manipulation
Jonathan Wand. 2004. Working paper.

Analysis and data

Florida, USA, 2004---Optical and DRE

Hand and optical scanner counts, New Hampshire, USA, 2004

Butterfly ballot in Palm Beach County, Florida, USA, 2000

Hand counts in parliamentary elections, Canada, 2000

Related research

Jas Sekhon and Walter Mebane's analysis of overvotes, and additional voting irregularities

Henry Brady's research

Bruce Hansen's research

Resources

Database of voting technologies used by county

Election Incident Reporting System

Multinomial outlier detection R library by Mebane and Sekhon

Other

Is someone allowed to eat a paper ballot?