Residual Voting In Florida,
2010
Washington University in St. Louis School of Law
Residual Voting In Florida, James Hicks, Paul Gronke, Charles Stewart Iii
Scholarship@WashULaw
The residual vote rate is a metric that can be used to evaluate the comparative performance of election systems, particularly voting technology and ballot design. If collected at the appropriate levels of disaggregation (county- or more preferably precinct-level) and by different modes of balloting (in person, absentee, and early voting), the residual vote rate can identify ways that voter demographics, voting technology, and the time and place of casting the ballot may influence varying levels of voting errors.
This report describes a project that examined the residual vote rates in the state of Florida’s 2008 presidential preference primary, taking advantage …
