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....

Historical election data, while publicly available, is not in a publicly accessible format that voters could easily find and understand. As part of the Data Science Institute's Data & Democracy research initiative, Data Science Clinic students Sally North, Lisa Singh, Klaudia Barbarossa, and Jacob Chui used Large Language Models to consolidate comprehensive election results in a repository that's available to the pub....

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....