Understanding Elections Through Statistics

Written for those with only a brief introduction to statistics, this book takes you on a statistical journey from how polls are taken to how they can-and should-be used to estimate current popular opinion. Once an understanding of the election process is built, we turn towards testing elections for evidence of unfairness. While holding elections has become the de facto proof of government legitimacy, those electoral processes may hide the dirty little secret of the government illicitly ensuring a favorable election outcome--