Does voting technology affect election outcomes? Touch-screen voting and the 2004 Presidential election

Review of Economics and Statistics

Volumn 89, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 660-673

  Card, David ^a   Moretti, Enrico ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 36448939772     PISSN: 00346535     EISSN: 15309142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/rest.89.4.660     Document Type: Article

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