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- ↑ Cantú, Francisco; Saiegh, Sebastián M. (2011). "Fraudulent Democracy? An Analysis of Argentina's "Infamous Decade" Using Supervised Machine Learning". Political Analysis. 19 (4): 409–433. doi: 10.1093/pan/mpr033 . ISSN 1047-1987. JSTOR 41403728.
- ↑ Mebane, Walter R. (November 13, 2019). "Evidence Against Fraudulent Votes Being Decisive in the Bolivia 2019 Election∗" (PDF). University of Michigan personal homepage server. Retrieved 2 January 2020.
- ↑ Swinden, Silvia (15 November 2019). "Studies refute OAS claims of irregularities in Bolivian elections". Pressenza - International Press Agency. Retrieved 16 November 2019.
