Evaluating Voting Technologies: Florida 2004
Optical Scan Tabulation versus DRE

The preliminary research note and data is part of a collaborative project with Jasjeet Sekhon, Walter Mebane, Jr., and Michael Herron.

Preliminary Analysis

Evaluating the Impact of Voting Technology on the Tabulation of Voter Preferences: The 2004 Presidential election in Florida
Jonathan Wand. Working paper

Data collected by Michael Herron and Jonathan Wand

Documentation is forthcoming, though the column headings should be informative on their own.

County Level Dataset for Replication
If you have data that you would like added to this dataset, please contact me. The data will need to have the county FIPS number for each record, and source documentation.

Related work

Jasjeet Sekhon's Matching analysis of optical scans vs DRE in Florida 2004
Walter Mebane's First letter about the controversy and his second

Data sources

Except for Florida specific sites, these are also useful resources for compiling data for other states

Florida DoS Division of Elections
Census: main site, current estimates and local income
Verified Voting's Election Equipment database


Return to Evaluating elections and voting technologies

email: wand(at)stanford.edu