For those who care about this sort of thing, Walter Mebane of Cornell University has an article in the new issue of the American Political Science Association journal Perspectives on Politics (you can find a copy in PDF here). The abstract:
"Using ballot-level data from the NORC Florida ballots project and ballot-image files, I argue that overvoted ballots in the 2000 presidential election in Florida included more than 50,000 votes that were intended to go to either Bush or Gore but instead were discarded. This was primarily due to defective election administration in the state.... If the best type of vote tabulation system had been used in Florida in 2000 - precinct-tabulated optical scan ballots - had been used everywhere in the state, Gore would have won by more than 30,000 votes."
Not my sort of thing, but those for whom it is might want to track this article down.
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