gavote {faraway} | R Documentation |
The data comes from the US presidential election in the state of Georgia. The undercount is the difference between the number of ballots cast and votes recorded. Voters may have chosen not to vote for president, voted for more than one candidate (disqualified) or the equipment may have failed to register their choice.
data(gavote)
A data frame with 159 observations on the following 10 variables. Each case represents a county in Georgia.
equip
LEVER
,
OS-CC
(optical, central count), OS-PC
(optical,
precinct count) PAPER
, PUNCH
econ
middle
poor
rich
perAA
rural
rural
or urban
atlanta
Atlanta
or not: notAtlanta
gore
bush
other
votes
ballots
Meyer M. (2002) Uncounted Votes: Does Voting Equipment Matter? Chance, 15(4), 33-38