Voting technology, ballot measures, and residual votes

American Politics Research

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 479-509

  Kimball, David C ^a   Kropf, Martha ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Ballot design; Direct legislation; Election reform; Initiatives; Residual votes; Rolloff

Indexed keywords

EID: 44849091892     PISSN: 1532673X     EISSN: 15523373     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1532673X08320405     Document Type: Article

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