Walter Mebane is a Professor of Political Science and Professor of Statistics at the University of Michigan. Professor Mebane earned his B.A. in Government from Harvard University and his M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D. in Political Science from Yale University.

His research deals almost exclusively with election forensics.

Representative Publications

Mebane Jr, Walter R. “Election Forensics: Latent Dimensions of Election Frauds and Strategic Voting.” Summer Meeting of the Political Methodology Society, Rochester, July. 2015.

Mebane, Walter R. “The Wrong Man is President! Overvotes in the 2000 Presidential Election in Florida.” Perspectives on Politics 2.03 (2004): 525-535.

Mebane Jr, Walter R. “Evaluating Voting Systems to Improve and Verify Accuracy.” Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, San Francisco, CA. 2007.