[EL] Request to the List from Aborad

[Charles Stewart III]

I don't have the cite in front of me, but Ansolabehere and Reeves wrote an article that analyzed recounts in New Hampshire.  They compared paper and optical scan ballots which were then recounted.  Hand-counted ballot counts were less accurate than the op-scan ballots.  This would seem to be the perfect cite.  I don't know of any other similar research.

-cs

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On Mar 9, 2013, at 8:26 AM, "Gaddie, Ronald K." <rkgaddie at ou.edu<mailto:rkgaddie at ou.edu>> wrote:

Dear Colleagues-

I was contacted this morning by a former student who now lives in Austria.  A political party he is involved with lost a state parliamentary seat by a single vote, and is petitioning the courts for a recount.  They are also seeking any support in crafting a brief in support of their request.

It is a paper ballot, hand count election and would obviously be a hand count recount if conducted.  As he noted to me, in asking if I could help them with a brief (which unfortunately I cannot): "There is just no one over here who can do it, this has never happened before, and there is no provision for it in the law."

In particular, I think they are seeking opinions regarding the error rate in paper ballot counts.

Thank you,
keith


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