Still time for an election audit: Column

Ron Rivest and Philip Stark November 18, 2016
This should be standard — and it's easy, too.

A Washington Post–ABC News poll found that 18% of voters — 33% of Clinton supporters and 1% of Trump supporters — think Trump was not the legitimate winner of the election. Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., has called on Congress to investigate the Russian cyberattack on the Democratic National Committee and the election.

There are reasons for concern. According to the director of national intelligence, the leaked emails from the DNC were “intended to interfere with the U.S. election process.” ............

Professors Begin Researching How Voter ID Played A Role In Turnout
Voter Turnout In 2016 Election Was Near A 20-Year Low
Tuesday, November 15, 2016,
By Ross Terrell

Professors at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are researching the effect the state's new voter ID laws had on turnout in this year's presidential election.

Milwaukee city officials pointed to the laws as the reason 41,000 fewer people participated in this year's presidential election compared to 2012.

Students at UW-Madison and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee will be the first to take part in a survey about their participation in the 2016 election. In order to determine why there was a large drop in turnout, researchers need to find out people's true reasons for not voting, Kenneth Mayer, a political science professor at UW-Madison, said.

"Basically, at this point, claims about what happened by simply looking at the number of voters is just not based on the right information," said Mayer, the lead researcher for the study.

He said they hope to be able to sort through all the reasons behind Wisconsin's near 20-year low turnout. ...........