santa.cruz.audit {elec} | R Documentation |
santa.cruz
and santa.cruz.audit
hold data from a Santa Cruz County, CA, contest held in
November, 2008, for County Supervisor in the 1st District. The
competitive candidates were John Leopold and Betty Danner. According to
the semi-official results provided to us by the Santa Cruz County
Clerk's office, Leopold won with votes on 45% of the 26,655 ballots.
Danner received the votes on 37% of the ballots. The remaining ballots were
undervoted, overvoted, or had votes for minor candidates.
data(santa.cruz.audit)
A data frame with 16 observations on the following 4 variables.
PID
leopold
danner
count
santa.cruz.audit
holds the audit totals for the random sample of
precincts selected for the audit. Note the santa.cruz.audit
vote
counts are larger for some precincts due the missing provisional
ballot counts in the semi-official results.
Santa Cruz County, CA, Clerk Gail Pellerin, and their staffs, which we thank for their generous cooperation and the onsiderable time and effort they spent counting ballots by hand in order to collect these data.
santa.cruz. For an illustration of analyzing this data, see the
example in trinomial.bound
.
data(santa.cruz.audit) data(santa.cruz) santa.cruz = elec.data(santa.cruz, C.names=c("leopold","danner")) trinomial.audit( santa.cruz, santa.cruz.audit )