The Florida Presidential Vote

Online Reading

• "Nation Awash in Ideas for Changing Voting" New York Times, 28 January 2001.
  The Times maintains a web page on the 2000 Election. See the Interactive Guide to the Vote in Florida (link in their left navigation column).

• Here is the infamous Palm Beach butterfly ballot. Click on the picture for an online demonstration from the South Florida Sun-Sentinel.

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• A Note on the Voting Irregularities in Palm Beach, FL, by a research group at Carnegie Mellon University. Argues that the data indicate something ususual happened in Palm Beach. Links to many other interesting analyses.

• Statistical Analysis Of The Florida Presidential Election Results, by the Anderson Economic Group. Argues that Palm Beach has been made to look like an outlier through inappropriate statistical displays.