newhamp: New Hampshire Democratic Party Primary 2008
Description
Votes and other demographic information from 276 wards in the 2008
Democratic Party presidential primary.source
Herron, M., W. M. Jr, and J. Wand (2008). Voting Technology and the 2008 New Hampshire Primary. Wm. & Mary Bill Rts. J. 17, 351-374.Details
On the 8th January 2008, primaries to select US presidential candidates
were held in New Hampshire. In the Democratic party primary, Hillary Clinton
defeated Barack Obama contrary to the expectations pre-election opinion
polls. Essentially two different voting technologies were used in New Hampshire.
Some wards used paper ballots, counted by hand while others used optically
scanned ballots, counted by machine. Among the paper ballots, Obama had more
votes than Clinton while Clinton defeated Obama on just the machine counted
ballots. Since the method of voting should make no causal difference to
the outcome, suspicions have been raised regarding the integrity of the
election.