Overview of Election Audit

1. Provide additional data to to complete the audit as below:

• The voter turnout for each county

• The percentage of votes from each county out of the total count

• The county with the highest turnout

Election-Audit Results:

• How many votes were cast in this congressional election?

Total voted casted in the congressional election were 369,711

• Provide a breakdown of the number of votes and the percentage of total votes for each county in the precinct.

Jefferson County: 10.5% (38,855)

Denver County: 82.8% (306,055)

Arapahoe County: 6.7% (24,801)

• Which county had the largest number of votes?

With 306,055 Denver had the largest number of votes.

• Provide a breakdown of the number of votes and the percentage of the total votes each candidate received.

Charles Casper Stockham: 23.0% (85,213)

Diana DeGette: 73.8% (272,892)

Raymon Anthony Doane: 3.1% (11,606)

• Which candidate won the election, what was their vote count, and what was their percentage of the total votes?

Winner of the election: Diana DeGette

Total Votes for Diana: 272,892

Percentage of total votes for Diana: 73.8%

Election-Audit Summary:

Below are two examples of how this script can be modified to be used for other elections.

1. Including voters age:

Age is one of the leading indicators of voter turnaround. We can do this by adding the age description in coding lines following the data we already have, example:

winning_county = ""

winning_county_count = 0

winning_county_percentage = 0

adding

winning_county_age = 0

in other similar lines too.

2. Including voters enthusiasm:

It is more a quality indicator. Similarly to the above coding lines we could add (Extremely motivated

Very motivated

Somewhat motivated

Not too motivated

Not at all motivated

No opinion)