Walter Mebane

{{Short description|American political scientist (born 1958)}}

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| birth_date = {{birth date and age |1958|11|30|mf=y}}

| birth_place = Long Branch, New Jersey

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| nationality = American

| fields = Political science

| workplaces = University of Michigan

| alma_mater = Yale University
Harvard College

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Walter Richard Mebane, Jr. (born November 30, 1958) is a University of Michigan professor of political science and statistics and an expert on detecting electoral fraud. He has studied potentially fraudulent election results, including those of the 2009 Iranian presidential election{{cite Q|Q128607113}} and of 1930s elections in Argentina.{{Cite journal|last1=Cantú|first1=Francisco|last2=Saiegh|first2=Sebastián M.|date=2011|title=Fraudulent Democracy? An Analysis of Argentina's "Infamous Decade" Using Supervised Machine Learning|journal=Political Analysis|volume=19|issue=4|pages=409–433|doi=10.1093/pan/mpr033|jstor=41403728|issn=1047-1987|doi-access=free}} He authored a paper{{Cite web|url=http://www-personal.umich.edu/~wmebane/Bolivia2019.pdf|title=Evidence Against Fraudulent Votes Being Decisive in the Bolivia 2019 Election∗|last=Mebane|first=Walter R.|date=November 13, 2019|website=University of Michigan personal homepage server|access-date=2 January 2020}} disputing the Organization of American States's claim of fraud in the 2019 Bolivian general election.{{cite news|url=https://www.pressenza.com/2019/11/studies-refute-oas-claims-of-irregularities-in-bolivian-elections/|title=Studies refute OAS claims of irregularities in Bolivian elections|last1=Swinden|first1=Silvia|date=15 November 2019|accessdate=16 November 2019|publisher=Pressenza - International Press Agency}}