Mulligan, Casey B.; Hunter, Charles G. - Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago - 2000
Empirical distributions of election margins are computing using data on 16,577 U.S. Congressional and 40,036 state legislator election returns. One of every 100,000 votes cast in U.S. elections, and one of every 15,000 votes cast in state elections, "mattered" in the sense that they were cast...