Voting and Elections Data, Articles, and Research Resources

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....

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....

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"....