How Secret is the Ballot?

• In Event: Electoral Systems, Integrity, and Voter Confidence

Brief Overview

We show how often granular election data reveals information of an individual vote choice. We find that, contrary to the arguments made in state court, these revelations are exceedingly rare even though vote choice is geographically clustered.

Authors

• Shiro Kuriwaki, Yale University

• Jeffrey Lewis, University of California-Los Angeles

• Michael L. Morse, Columbia University