Walter Mebane

Walter R. Mebane
Born (1958-11-30) November 30, 1958
Alma materYale University
Harvard College
Scientific career
FieldsPolitical science
InstitutionsUniversity of Michigan

Walter Richard Mebane, Jr. (born November 30, 1958) is a University of Michigan professor of political science and statistics and an expert on detecting electoral fraud.[1]

Electoral forensics

Mebane has studied potentially fraudulent election results, including those of the 2009 Iranian presidential election[1] and of 1930s elections in Argentina.[2] He authored a paper[3] disputing the Organization of American States's claim of fraud in the 2019 Bolivian general election.[4] In April 2004, he published a report finding that error-prone methods of counting votes (vote tabulation) in Florida in the 2000 United States presidential election led to a legal result that was the opposite of the voters' intentions.[5]

References

  1. ^ a b Walter Mebane (August 2, 2013). "Fraud in the 2009 Presidential Election in Iran?". Chance. 23: 6–15. doi:10.1080/09332480.2010.10739785. ISSN 0933-2480. Wikidata Q128607113.
  2. ^ Cantú, Francisco; Saiegh, Sebastián M. (2011). "Fraudulent Democracy? An Analysis of Argentina's "Infamous Decade" Using Supervised Machine Learning". Political Analysis. 19 (4): 409–433. doi:10.1093/pan/mpr033. ISSN 1047-1987. JSTOR 41403728.
  3. ^ Mebane, Walter R. (November 13, 2019). "Evidence Against Fraudulent Votes Being Decisive in the Bolivia 2019 Election∗" (PDF). University of Michigan personal homepage server. Retrieved January 2, 2020.
  4. ^ Swinden, Silvia (November 15, 2019). "Studies refute OAS claims of irregularities in Bolivian elections". Pressenza - International Press Agency. Retrieved November 16, 2019.
  5. ^ "The Wrong Man is President! Overvotes in the 2000 Presidential Election in Florida" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on April 14, 2024.