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Polmeth - election fraud in the Gilded Age

I'll write more later about some of the research reported the past few days at the Political Methodology conference.

I'm now at one of the conference poster sessions, looking at a poster by Gail Buttorff, a grad student at the University of Iowa. Gail's poster is titled "Electoral Fraud in the Gilded Age", and it presents an application of the Benford's Law test developed by Walter Mebane, and discussed in our recent book, "Election Fraud." Gail's test confirms some of the historical research that has asserted that there was rampar electoral fraud in the Gilded Age.

I'll try to get a copy of her poster and paper!

Full post as published by Election Updates on July 11, 2008 (boomark / email).