Election-Forensics: A R Package for Detecting Signs of Frauds in Election Results

• In Event: Methodological Advances in the Study of Elections

Brief Overview

We review the main electoral forensic approaches and present a R package that 1. implements nearly all techniques that have been proposed to detect election fraud; 2. introduces new multimodality tests; 3. illustrates those on varied election data.

Authors

• Fabricio Vasselai, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

• Walter R Mebane, University of Michigan