Voting and Elections Data, Articles, and Research Resources

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....

Cornell University's Data and Democracy lab evaluated data from the November 2024 election, weighing it against some of voters' top concerns in the months before. Read more: https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/the-story/portland-ranked-choice-vote-election-report-research-single-transferrable/283-eedb94d4-5ab0-4660-a2d3-8dc52228b007 Watch more The Story videos: https://bit.ly/TheStoryKGW Follow The Story on Twit....

How political are today’s AIs? We review a new large-scale, longitudinal study that queried 12 language models with 12,000+ election questions almost daily through the 2024 US election, the first one in history to have such widespread public access to LLMs like ChatGPT. ORIGINAL PAPER: Sarah H. Cen, Andrew Ilyas, Hedi Driss, et al., Large-Scale, Longitudinal Study of Large Language Models During the 2024 US Elect....