11. 1977 BALLOT-SCAN RELATED DOCUMENTS, 1977
Scope and Contents
Several dozen loose documents (Memos, Trip Reports, etc.) related to the WLC-DMS Ballot Scanning project. An important document in this set is a mathematical model developed by George Gordon Woodworth, Department of Statistics, University of Iowa, March 31, 1977 (Revised April 8, 1977), entitled: ESTIMATING THE CHANCES OF MISCALLING AN ELECTION. This study was requested by JVM, following an extremely close race in the 1976 Douglas County, NE Primary Election, where the paper ballots were scanned and tabulated by the WLC-DMS W600 Ballot Processing System. The Archival DVD Folder 1977_04_08_Woodworth_Election Recount Results, contains a set of 33 JPEG-Image scans of the complete report: text-pages, graphs, appendices. Another DVD Folder: 1977_10_26_JVM to Hansen_VoteScanMarketAnalysis, from the 1977 Ballot-Scan related documents, is the WLC/DMS assessment of the DMS W600B ballot scanner market in the fall of 1977, based upon my findings during a westward U. S. trip report with DMS management on October 20 & 21 of that year
Dates
- Creation: 1977
Creator
- From the Collection: McMillin, John V. (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is open for research.
Extent
From the Collection: 14.50 Linear Feet
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Repository Details
Part of the University of Iowa Archives Repository
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University of Iowa Libraries
Iowa City IA 52242
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