Florida 2000

Variables, all by county:

• Ballot data
  
  • Tech: voting technology
    1. Datavote = Datavote punch card system
    2. Hand = manual tabulation
    3. Lever = lever machine, Datavote tabulation
    4. OPTC = optical ballot, central tabulation
    5. OPTP = optical ballot, precinct tabulation
    6. Votomatic = Votomatic punch card ballot
    
    
  • Layout:
    0: for simple (one column, one page list of presidential candidates)
    1: for complex (two column, two page, butterfly)
    

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  • under: number of undervote ballots
  • over: number of overvote ballots
  • Votes: votes counted, not including absentee
    
  • CertVote: official total including absentee ballots
  • Ballots: Votes+under+over
  • Votes for presidential candidates: Bush (Rep), Gore (Dem), Browne (Lib), Nader (Grn), Harris (SWP), Hagelin (NLaw), Buchanan (Ref), McReynolds (SP-USA), Phillips (Const), Moorehead (WW), Chote (Write in), McCarthy (Write in)
    

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  • socio-economic data:
    
    • PctBlack: Percent black
      
    • PctHisp: Percent hispanic
      
    • Pct65: Percent over age 65
      
    • Poverty: Percent below poverty level
      
    • Unemp: unemployment rate
      
    • PctColGrad: Percent college graduates
      
    • PctHS: Percent high school graduates
      
    • MedHHInc: 1999 estimated median household income
  Note This is a large file. Rather than using copy and paste approach to loading it into your R session, try:

         FL <- read.csv("http://people.reed.edu/~jones/141/FL.dat")
  

  
  

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  Sources: Vote counts and totals from the Florida dept. of elections. Voting machine/tabulation method from the Florida department of elections, socio-economic data from the Census bureau. Under/over vote counts from the NORC election project tabulated by Brett Presnell Ballot layout from Brett Presnell and the ICPSR ballot images archive.
  

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