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Statistics and politics Quick counts in Mexico
Author(s) -
Mendoza Manuel
Publication year - 2019
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.1740-9713.2019.01338.x
Subject(s) - democracy , politics , political science , sociology , statistics , law , mathematics
Mexico's democracy has changed much over the past 20 years. But voters still have to wait up to a week for official results to be announced. Fortunately, statisticians came up with a solution to this problem: the conteo rápido . Manuel Mendoza explains what it is and how it works