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Public Opinion Quarterly 2004 68(1):102-108; doi:10.1093/poq/nfh007
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Public Opinion Quarterly, Vol. 68 No. 1 Pp. 102–108, © American Association for Public Opinion Research 2004; all rights reserved

Voting Records and Validated Voting Studies

Carol A. Cassel

I am indebted to Michael Traugott for helpful comments on an earlier version of this note.
University of Alabama

Address correspondence to the author; e-mail: ccassel@tenhoor.as.ua.edu.

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This research note examines whether people who overreport voting or voting records (or both) account for different results from self-reported and validated voter turnout research.

Presser, Traugott, and Traugott (1990) raised the possibility that findings of overreporting bias in self-reported turnout studies may be artifacts of validation error. They showed that inferior voting records may deter validators from finding evidence of actual voting in central cities, the South, and African American communities. This is a critical concern for political scientists because some studies have found that overreporters bias the effects of the same or overlapping variables. Abramson and Claggett (1984, 1986, 1989, 1991) found that overreporters alter the effect of race on turnout. Bernstein, Chadha, and Montjoy (2001) found that overreporters alter the effect of race, residence in the Deep South, Hispanic ethnicity, the interaction of region and race, and minority concentration. Cassel (2002, 2003) found . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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