Title
Elections 2012: Suppressing Fraud or Suppressing the Vote?
UMMS Affiliation
Department of Quantitative Health Sciences
Publication Date
2013-01-01
Document Type
Article
Disciplines
American Politics | Public Policy | Statistics and Probability
Abstract
Recent years have seen a wave of laws making it more difficult to vote in the United States. Their ostensible purpose is to prevent voting by persons not legally qualified, and thus to improve public confidence in electoral integrity. Are such laws in fact needed to address serious fraud problems? On the other hand, how many and what kinds of legitimate voters will be, or have been, disenfranchised by them? Is voter confidence positively, or negatively, affected by voter ID laws? This article surveys what is known about these issues and offers suggestions for how statisticians can contribute.
DOI of Published Version
10.1515/spp-2012-0002
Source
Ash AS, Lamperti JW. Elections 2012: Suppressing Fraud or Suppressing the Vote? Statistics, Politics and Policy. 2013. 4(1):14-28. DOI: 10.1515/spp-2012-0002.
Journal/Book/Conference Title
Statistics, Politics and Policy
Repository Citation
Ash, Arlene S. and Lamperti, John W., "Elections 2012: Suppressing Fraud or Suppressing the Vote?" (2013). Quantitative Health Sciences Publications and Presentations. 1115.
https://escholarship.umassmed.edu/qhs_pp/1115
