An electoral butterfly effect

Robert C. Sinclair (), Melvin M. Mark, Sean E. Moore, Carrie A. Lavis and Alexander S. Soldat
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Robert C. Sinclair: P-343 BioSci, University of Alberta
Melvin M. Mark: Pennsylvania State University, Moore Building, University Park
Sean E. Moore: P-343 BioSci, University of Alberta
Carrie A. Lavis: P-343 BioSci, University of Alberta
Alexander S. Soldat: P-343 BioSci, University of Alberta

Nature, 2000, vol. 408, issue 6813, 665-666

Abstract: Abstract Part of the controversy surrounding this year's presidential election in the United States concerns the potential for systematic bias in the ballot-card format — could the butterfly ballot used in Palm Beach County, Florida, have led to confusion and caused people who had intended to vote for Al Gore to vote for Pat Buchanan by mistake? Here we show that not only is the double-column butterfly ballot more confusing than a single-column ballot, but that it also appears to cause systematic errors in voting which call into question the validity of the results from Palm Beach County in the 2000 United States presidential election.

Date: 2000
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