Fraud or human error in Mexico’s presidential election?
نویسندگان
چکیده
Mexico’s recent presidential election put the whole electoral system, from candidates to citizens and authorities, to the test. Soon after election-day, one of the losing candidates and other observers alleged that fraudulent practices of different sorts took place on July 2. Beyond and above the use of fraud claims as a political strategy, do these claims hold any water? There are no definitive tests of electoral fraud, but a statistical analysis of polling data from the more than 130 thousand precincts can shed some light on the issue.
منابع مشابه
Social factors affecting electoral behavior: Presidential election in Mazandaran province
The main objective of this research is the sociological study of the impact of social influences on electoral behavior in Iran's presidential election among citizens living in Mazandaran province. This research is descriptive-analytic and survey is carried out using a researcher-made questionnaire. Using Cochran's formula, 384 individuals were selected as sample size and then statistical sampli...
متن کاملThe Role of Internet in Elections (A case study of the Presidential Election of the USA in 2008)
Internet has found an increasing role in the politics, during the last decade. Today, terms like digital democracy, Internet elections, Internet advertisements (propaganda, social- political Web logging in the internet has become common terms. Internet is getting replaced for the traditional media in politics. The interactive characteristic of this media has changed it to an unrivaled instrume...
متن کاملCritical Discourse Analysis of Hedges and Boosters in Iranian TV Election Debates of Presidential Candidates
To win the attention of the audience, presidential candidates rely on their own rhetorical methods. Hedges and boosters as metadiscourse markers have been the focus of many studies as the communicative strategies enabling speakers to soften the force of utterances or moderate their assertive force. TV news was used as the corpus of this study, whereas most of the previous studies have focused o...
متن کاملModeling and forecasting US presidential election using learning algorithms
The primary objective of this research is to obtain an accurate forecasting model for the US presidential election. To identify a reliable model, artificial neural networks (ANN) and support vector regression (SVR) models are compared based on some specified performance measures. Moreover, six independent variables such as GDP, unemployment rate, the president’s approval rate, and others are co...
متن کاملDisputed Elections in Presidential Democracies: Challenging Electoral Outcomes as a Negotiation Strategy
Elections are defining moments in which the stability of democracies is tested. The behavior of losing parties is key in this stage of the democratic process. In authoritarian regimes, losing parties might reasonably challenge the outcome of elections as consequence of widespread and systematic fraud that reverts the outcome of the election. However, post-election disputes also happen in 21% of...
متن کامل