Election Dispute Resolution in France: Combating Fraud or Expensive Sideshow?

• In Event: Electoral Reform

Brief Overview

Elections in France are frequently challenged and annulled. Do these contests represent actual instances where voter intentions have been subverted? To investigate, we use election forensic techniques paired with dispute data from France.

Authors

• Joseph Richard Klaver, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

• Walter R Mebane, University of Michigan