Subject: CA ballots
From: "J. Morgan Kousser" <kousser@HSS.CALTECH.EDU>
Date: 8/26/2003, 3:04 PM
To: election-law@majordomo.lls.edu

  Actually, there have been many social science projects that have used individual California ballot images, though I'm not entirely sure how they were obtained.  See, e.g., Jeffrey B. Lewis, "Understanding King's Ecological Inference Model," Historical Methods, 34 (2001), 170-88, in which Jeff used individual-level voting records from the 60th A.D. in 1992 to check the reliability of estimates using aggregate data.  I believe that Liz Gerber also used such records in her study of initiatives in CA.  Surely, there will be studies of linkages between votes on three issues on Oct. 7:  recall, the candidates, and Prop. 54, and the Connerly Initiative.
Morgan

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