Losing Votes by Mail
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چکیده
INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 573 R I. THE VOTING PIPELINE AND LOST VOTES, 2000 TO 2008. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 576 R II. THE VOTE-BY-MAIL PIPELINE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 579 R III. THE RISE OF VOTE-BY-MAIL SINCE 1972 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 581 R IV. AN ESTIMATE OF LOST VOTES IN THE 2008 VOTE-BYMAIL SYSTEM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 584 R A. Estimating the Number of Mail-In Ballots Transmitted to Voters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 585 R B. Estimating the Number of Mail Ballots Returned for Counting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 586 R C. Estimating the Number of Ballots Counted . . . . . . . 587 R D. Estimating the Number of Requested Ballots . . . . . 587 R E. Summarizing the Calculations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 589 R V. VOTE-BY-MAIL AND RESIDUAL VOTES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 591 R CONCLUSION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 596 R APPENDIX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 601 R
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