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Evidence‐based elections: Beyond the “rigging” debate
Author(s) -
Lindeman Mark
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
significance
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.123
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 1740-9713
pISSN - 1740-9705
DOI - 10.1111/j.1740-9713.2017.00998.x
Subject(s) - voting , political science , spoilt vote , presidential election , presidential system , law and economics , general election , group voting ticket , political economy , law , economics , politics
Claims of “rigged” voting made headlines during the 2016 US presidential election campaign. But while there is no convincing evidence of fraud, there is also a lack of strong evidence to say that US election systems produce the right results. Mark Lindeman explains the vote verification problem