Jasjeet Sekhon's Analysis of Voting Irregularities Webpage

Working Papers:

• Jasjeet S. Sekhon. "The 2004 Florida Optical Voting Machine Controversy: A Causal Analysis Using Matching."

• Jonathan N. Wand. "Evaluating the Impact of Voting Technology on the Tabulation of Voter Preferences: The 2004 Presidential election in Florida."

Publications:

• "Data Troubles: Explaining Discrepancies between Official Votes and Exit Polls in the 2004 Presidential Election". Forthcoming in Chance.

• Walter R. Mebane, Jr. and Jasjeet S. Sekhon. "Robust Estimation and Outlier Detection for Overdispersed Multinomial Models of Count Data." American Journal of Political Science, 48 (April): 391-410. 2004. Software and replication archive is available HERE.

• Michael C. Herron and Jasjeet S. Sekhon. "Black Candidates and Black Voters: Assessing the Impact of Candidate Race on Uncounted Vote Rates." Journal of Politics, 66:4 (November). 2004. Supplementary material for this article is available HERE.

• Mebane, Walter R., Jr. "The Wrong Man is President! Overvotes in the 2000 Presidential Election in Florida." Appears in Perspectives on Politics , September 2004.

• Michael C. Herron and Jasjeet S. Sekhon.  "Overvoting and Representation: An examination of overvoted presidential ballots in Broward and Miami-Dade counties." Electoral Studies 22: 21-47. 2003.

• Jonathan N. A. Wand, Kenneth W. Shotts, Jasjeet S. Sekhon, Walter R. Mebane, Jr., Michael C. Herron and Henry E. Brady. "The Butterfly Did It: The Aberrant Vote for Buchanan in Palm Beach County, Florida." American Political Science Review, 95 (4): 793-810. 2001.

• Jonathan N. A. Wand, Jasjeet S. Sekhon, and Walter R. Mebane, Jr. "A Comparative Analysis of Multinomial Voting Irregularities: Canada 2000." Proceedings of the American Statistical Society. 2001.

Diebold Electronic Voting Systems Controversy:

• Background Information

• Click Here for relevant Slashdot stories.

Replication Data May be Obtained Here

Obsolete, Deprecated and Out-of-Date Work Which May Be of Interest:

• "Evidence of Excessive Buchanan Vote Share in Palm Beach County, Florida," by Jonathan N. Wand, Kenneth W. Shotts, Jasjeet S. Sekhon, Walter R. Mebane, Jr., Michael C. Herron and Henry E. Brady. Paper Presented at the 2001 Annual Meeting of the Public Choice Society, San Antonio, Texas, March 9-11.

• "Voting Irregularities in Palm Beach County," by Jonathan N. Wand, Kenneth W. Shotts, Jasjeet S. Sekhon, Walter R. Mebane, Jr. and Michael C. Herron.

• "What Happened in Palm Beach?" by Henry Brady.

Documents Prepared for the Palm Beach County Court:

• "Report on Voting and Ballot Form in Palm Beach County," by Henry Brady.

• "Report on Overvote Consequences of the Ballot Form in Palm Beach County," by Walter R. Mebane, Jr.