Detecting voter fraud in an electronic voting context: An analysis of the unlimited reelection vote in Venezuela

EVT/WOTE 2009 - 2009 Electronic Voting Technology Workshop/Workshop on Trustworthy Elections

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Levin, Inés ^a   Cohn, Gabe A ^b   Ordeshook, Peter C ^a   Michael Alvarez, R ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b California Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRIME; VOTING MACHINES;

FORENSIC TOOLS; GENERAL PATTERNS; NATIONAL ELECTIONS; UKRAINE; VENEZUELA; VOTING TECHNOLOGY;

ELECTRONIC VOTING;

EID: 85092072803     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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