Voting and Elections Data, Articles, and Research Resources

This walkthrough demonstrates how to greatly accelerate data diagnostics, ingestion, and analysis with DAAF (the Data Analyst Augmentation Framework) and Claude Code, for any dataset you can imagine. In this video, we ingest U.S. presidential election data from the MIT Election Data and Science Lab (via Harvard Dataverse) and use DAAF's built-in ingestion and analysis pipelines to recreate the well-known "red shift"....

Dive into four different voting systems: plurality, instant runoff, tactical, and the Condorcet method, and find out which is fairest. -- Imagine we want to build a new space port at one of four recently settled Martian bases, and are holding a vote to choose its location. Of the 100 colonists on Mars, 42 live on West Base, 26 on North Base, 15 on South Base, and 17 on East Base. Assuming that everyone wants the p....

We don’t like the two-party system. So why do we have it? Help keep Vox free for everybody: http://www.vox.com/give-now America’s two-party system is widely hated. Very few Americans think the two major parties do an adequate job representing us, and most say more parties are needed. But when it comes time to vote, very few of us actually vote for third-party candidates. Often, this is explained as either a fa....