gavote {faraway}

Undercounted votes in Georgia in 2000 presidential election

Description

The data comes from the US presidential election in the state of Georgia. The undercount is the difference between the number of ballots cast and votes recorded. Voters may have chosen not to vote for president, voted for more than one candidate (disqualified) or the equipment may have failed to register their choice.

Format

A data frame with 159 observations on the following 10 variables. Each case represents a county in Georgia.

equip

The voting equipment used: LEVER, OS-CC (optical, central count), OS-PC (optical, precinct count) PAPER, PUNCH

econ

economic status of county: middle poor rich

perAA

percent of African Americans in county

rural

indicator of whether county is rural or urban

atlanta

indicator of whether county is in Atlanta or not: notAtlanta

gore

number of votes for Gore

bush

number of votes for Bush

other

number of votes for other candidates

votes

number of votes

ballots

number of ballots

Source

Meyer M. (2002) Uncounted Votes: Does Voting Equipment Matter? Chance, 15(4), 33-38