Using Recounts to Measure the Accuracy of Vote Tabulations: Evidence from New Hampshire Elections 1946-2002
Optical scanning machines demonstrate superior accuracy compared to hand-counted paper ballots.
Why It Matters
This publication situates Using Recounts to Measure the Accuracy of Vote Tabulations: Evidence from New Hampshire Elections 1946-2002 within work on election administration, election integrity, quantitative methods.
Its central contribution is to show that optical scanning machines demonstrate superior accuracy compared to hand-counted paper ballots.
It matters because the findings connect institutional choices to the way authority, public responsibility, and political behavior are experienced in practice.
Key Findings
- Optical scanning machines demonstrate superior accuracy compared to hand-counted paper ballots.
- 87% for hand-counted paper ballots (excluding outliers).
- This represents roughly a 50% improvement in tabulation accuracy with machine counting.
Research Design
- Design
- Article
Citation
In Confirming Elections: Creating Confidence and Integrity through Election Auditing.
- Venue
- Confirming Elections: Creating Confidence and Integrity through Election Auditing