/* From http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/datasets/ County data from the 2000 Presidential Election in Florida. For each of the 67 Florida counties, the data include the type of voting machine used, the number of columns in the presidential ballot, the undervote, the overvote, and the official certified votes for each of the twelve presidential candidates. Of particular interest are the Buchanan vote in Palm Beach county, and the overvote as a function of voting machine type and number of columns (see Agresti and Presnell, "Misvotes, Undervotes, and Overvotes: The 2000 Presidential Election in Florida," Statistical Science, Vol. 17, No. 4, 1-5, 2002. Submitted by (presnell@stat.ufl.edu). [28/Jan/03] County data from the 2000 Presidential Election in Florida. Compiled by Brett Presnell Department of Statistics, University of Florida These data are derived from three sources, described below. As far as I am aware, you are free to use these data in any way that you see fit, though some acknowledgement is always nice. The candidate vote counts are the final certified counts reported by the Florida Division of Elections. These were obtained from the NORC web site in the file Cert_results.csv. Note that these do NOT inculde the federal absentee votes (so that Gore's total vote is actually higher here than Bush's). The undervote and overvote counts were extracted from the NORC ballot level data in the file aligned.txt. Since aligned.txt is too large to work with in R (or almost any other program) I used cut (a standard UNIX program) to extract just the columns I needed: cut -f 2,9,10 -d"|" aligned.txt > tmp Then I read the results into R and processed them there. The technology and columns data were extracted from the Media Group data from the NORC web site. "Technology" is simply the type of voting machine used, and "columns" is 1 if the ballot listed the presidential candidates in a single column on a single page, and 2 if the presidential candidates were spread over two columns or two pages of the ballot. These agree with some earlier data that I had obtained from the NY Times web site, except that in the media group data the PalmBeach county ballot (the famous butterfly ballot) was listed as having one column. I would definitely call this a two-column ballot, so that is the designation recorded here. At one time I thought that MiamiDade County also used a two-column ballot, but I was wrong (the ballot listed the candidates and parties in English and Spanish in opposing columns). Images of most of the ballots can be found on the New York Times web site: www.nytimes.com/ images/2001/11/12/politics/recount/index_BALLOT.html */ DATA Florida; INPUT county $ technlgy $ /* O=Optical V=Votomatic D=Datavote L=Lever H=Hand */ columns under over Bush Gore Browne Nader Harris Hagelin Buchanan McReynol Phillips Moorehea Chote McCarthy ; total = Bush + Gore + Browne + Nader + Harris + Hagelin + Buchanan + McReynol + Phillips + Moorehea + Chote + McCarthy ; LINES; Alachua O 1 217 105 34124 47365 658 3226 6 42 263 4 20 21 0 0 Baker O 1 79 46 5610 2392 17 53 0 3 73 0 3 3 0 0 Bay O 1 541 141 38637 18850 171 828 5 18 248 3 18 27 0 0 Bradford O 2 41 695 5414 3075 28 84 0 2 65 0 2 3 0 0 Brevard O 1 277 136 115185 97318 643 4470 11 39 570 11 72 76 0 0 Broward V 1 4946 7826 177902 387703 1217 7104 54 135 795 37 74 122 0 0 Calhoun O 1 78 0 2873 2155 10 39 0 1 90 1 2 3 0 0 Charlotte O 2 170 2985 35426 29645 127 1462 6 15 182 3 18 12 0 0 Citrus O 1 154 54 29767 25525 194 1379 5 16 270 0 18 28 2 0 Clay O 1 223 157 41736 14632 204 562 1 14 186 3 6 9 0 0 Collier V 1 2070 1134 60450 29921 185 1400 7 34 122 4 10 29 0 0 Columbia O 1 76 615 10964 7047 127 258 1 7 89 2 8 5 0 0 DeSoto D 2 66 568 4256 3320 23 157 0 0 36 3 8 2 3 3 Dixie D 1 22 306 2697 1826 32 75 0 2 29 0 3 2 0 0 Duval V 2 5090 21855 152098 107864 952 2757 37 162 652 15 58 41 0 0 Escambia O 1 679 3680 73017 40943 296 1727 6 24 502 3 110 20 0 0 Flagler O 1 60 7 12613 13897 60 435 1 4 83 3 3 12 0 0 Franklin O 2 70 350 2454 2046 17 85 1 3 33 0 3 2 0 0 Gadsden O 2 121 1946 4767 9735 24 139 3 4 38 4 7 6 0 0 Gilchrist D 1 47 241 3300 1910 52 97 0 1 29 0 2 4 0 0 Glades D 1 68 281 1841 1442 12 56 0 3 9 1 0 1 0 0 Gulf O 2 47 362 3550 2397 21 86 2 4 71 2 2 9 0 0 Hamilton O 2 31 373 2146 1722 12 37 4 1 23 8 7 4 0 0 Hardee D 1 84 323 3765 2339 17 75 0 2 30 0 2 3 0 0 Hendry O 2 39 760 4747 3240 11 104 3 1 22 2 7 2 0 0 Hernando O 1 83 148 30646 32644 116 1501 8 26 242 4 10 22 0 0 Highlands V 1 466 520 20206 14167 64 545 6 16 127 3 7 8 0 0 Hillsborough V 1 5431 3640 180760 169557 1138 7490 35 217 847 29 68 154 0 0 Holmes O 1 97 40 5011 2177 18 94 1 7 76 3 6 2 0 0 IndianRiver V 1 1044 790 28635 19768 122 950 4 13 105 2 13 10 0 0 Jackson O 2 94 998 9138 6868 40 138 0 2 102 1 4 7 0 0 Jefferson D 1 30 540 2478 3041 14 76 2 1 29 1 0 0 0 1 Lafayette O 2 17 160 1670 789 6 26 2 0 10 1 1 0 0 0 Lake O 1 203 3138 50010 36571 204 1460 4 36 289 1 21 15 0 0 Lee V 1 1975 2531 106141 73560 538 3587 30 81 305 5 34 96 0 0 Leon O 1 176 0 39062 61427 330 1932 9 28 282 7 16 31 0 0 Levy O 2 51 708 6858 5398 92 284 1 1 67 1 10 12 0 0 Liberty O 2 21 167 1317 1017 12 19 0 3 39 0 1 2 0 0 Madison D 1 31 444 3038 3014 18 54 0 2 29 1 1 5 0 0 Manatee O 1 109 1264 57952 49177 242 2491 5 35 271 3 19 26 0 0 Marion V 1 2410 890 55141 44665 662 1809 13 26 563 6 22 49 0 0 Martin L 1 177 56 33970 26620 109 1118 14 29 112 7 20 14 0 0 MiamiDade V 1 10570 17833 289533 328808 762 5352 87 119 560 35 69 124 0 0 Monroe O 1 83 97 16059 16483 162 1090 1 26 47 0 3 7 9 0 Nassau D 2 197 1295 16404 6952 63 253 0 8 90 4 3 3 0 0 Okaloosa O 1 83 679 52093 16948 313 985 4 15 267 2 33 20 0 0 Okeechobee O 2 84 774 5057 4588 21 131 1 4 43 1 3 4 0 0 Orange O 1 640 1197 134517 140220 891 3879 13 65 446 7 41 46 0 0 Osceola V 1 634 1039 26212 28181 309 732 10 20 145 5 10 33 1 0 PalmBeach V 2 10134 19218 152951 269732 743 5565 45 143 3411 302 190 104 0 0 Pasco V 1 1763 2124 68582 69564 413 3393 19 83 570 14 16 77 0 0 Pinellas V 1 4240 4258 184825 200630 1230 10022 41 442 1013 27 72 170 0 0 Polk O 1 219 668 90295 75200 366 2059 8 59 533 5 46 36 0 0 Putnam O 1 82 79 13447 12102 114 377 2 7 148 3 10 12 0 0 SantaRosa O 1 163 67 36274 12802 131 724 1 13 311 1 43 19 0 0 Sarasota V 1 1846 994 83100 72853 431 4069 11 94 305 5 15 59 0 0 Seminole O 1 203 48 75677 59174 550 1946 6 38 194 5 18 26 0 0 StJohns O 1 426 130 39546 19502 210 1217 4 11 229 2 12 13 0 0 StLucie O 1 537 82 34705 41559 165 1368 4 12 124 10 13 29 0 0 Sumter V 1 596 170 12127 9637 53 306 2 2 114 0 3 17 0 0 Suwannee O 2 39 686 8006 4075 52 180 2 4 108 0 9 5 16 0 Taylor O 2 87 517 4056 2649 4 59 0 3 27 1 8 1 0 0 Union H 2 25 233 2332 1407 15 33 1 0 37 0 1 0 0 0 Volusia O 1 339 171 82357 97304 444 2910 8 36 498 5 20 70 0 1 Wakulla D 1 49 373 4512 3838 30 149 2 3 46 1 0 6 0 0 Walton O 1 135 72 12182 5642 68 265 3 11 120 2 7 18 0 0 Washington O 1 305 36 4994 2798 32 93 0 2 88 0 9 5 3 1 ; run;