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Santa Cruz Election Data
Description
santa.cruz and santa.cruz.audit hold data from a Santa Cruz
County, CA, contest held in November, 2008, for County Supervisor in the 1st
District. The competitive candidates were John Leopold and Betty Danner.
According to the semi-official results provided to us by the Santa Cruz
County Clerk's office, Leopold won with votes on 45% of the 26,655 ballots.
Danner received the votes on 37% of the ballots. The remaining ballots
were undervoted, overvoted, or had votes for minor candidates.
santa.cruz.audit holds the audit totals for the random sample of
precincts selected for the audit. Note the santa.cruz.audit vote
counts are larger for some precincts due the missing provisional ballot
counts in the semi-official results.
Format
A data frame with 16 observations on the following 4 variables.
- PID
Precinct IDs (unique) for all precincts involved in race
- leopold
Total number of ballots marked for John Leopold.
- danner
Total number of ballots marked for Betty Danner.
- count
The number of times precinct was sampled in the PPEB sample taken.
Source
Santa Cruz County, CA, Clerk Gail Pellerin, and their staffs, which we thank for their generous cooperation and the considerable time and effort they spent counting ballots by hand in order to collect these data.
See Also
santa.cruz. For an illustration of analyzing this data, see
the example in trinomial.bound.
Examples
data(santa.cruz.audit)
data(santa.cruz)
santa.cruz = elec.data(santa.cruz, C.names=c("leopold","danner"))
trinomial.audit( santa.cruz, santa.cruz.audit )