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The Forensics of Election Fraud: Russia and Ukraine
ISBN: 9780521764704 | 052176470X
Edition: 1stFormat: Hardcover
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date: 4/27/2009
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This volume identifies forensic indicators of election fraud applied to official election returns, and tests and illustrates their application in Russia and Ukraine. The authors conclude that fraud has metastasized within the Russian polity during Putin's administration whereas in Ukraine, fraud has diminished considerably since the second round of its 2004 presidential election.
This volume offers a number of forensic indicators of election fraud applied to official election returns, and tests and illustrates thei... MORE
This volume offers a number of forensic indicators of election fraud applied to official election returns, and tests and illustrates thei... MORE
| List of Tables | p. vii |
| List of Figures | p. ix |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| A Forensics Approach to Detecting Election Fraud | p. 12 |
| Fraud and Forensics | p. 12 |
| The Special Relevance of Russia and Ukraine | p. 25 |
| Outline | p. 29 |
| The Fingerprints of Fraud | p. 30 |
| Indicators | p. 30 |
| Turnout and Absolute Vote | p. 32 |
| ... MORE | p. 42 |
| Stuffed Ballot Boxes versus Stolen Votes | p. 44 |
| The Flow of Votes | p. 47 |
| Evaluating Our Ecological Method | p. 53 |
| Simulating Fraud | p. 59 |
| Overview | p. 69 |
| Russia | p. 71 |
| Suspicious Anomalies of Russian Elections | p. 71 |
| The Distribution of Turnout | p. 82 |
| Who Wins the Extra Votes | p. 90 |
| The Flow of Votes | p. 101 |
| Republics versus Oblasts | p. 109 |
| Trends in Russian "Democracy" and the 2007 Duma Vote | p. 116 |
| Players and Motives | p. 135 |
| Ukraine 2004 | p. 138 |
| Rounds 1 and 2, 2004 | p. 138 |
| December 26, 2004 | p. 162 |
| Motives | p. 178 |
| Ukraine 2006 and 2007 | p. 183 |
| The Parliamentary Election of 2006 | p. 183 |
| The 2007 Contest | p. 197 |
| Conclusions | p. 227 |
| The United States | p. 233 |
| California, North Carolina, and Arizona | p. 233 |
| Florida | p. 244 |
| Idaho and Texas | p. 247 |
| Ohio 2004 | p. 253 |
| Conclusions | p. 265 |
| References | p. 275 |
| Index | p. 279 |
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