Electoral Process

Are Americans Confident Their Ballots Are Counted

Working Paper No.: 
49
Date Published: 
01/01/2009
Author(s): 
R. Michael Alvarez
Thad E. Hall

Expanding the large literature which investigates the characteristics of citizen and voter trust in government we analyze the heretofore neglected topic of voter trust in the electoral process. In this paper, we present results from three national surveys in which we asked voters the confidence they have that their vote for president in the 2000 or 2004 election was recorded as intended.

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