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....

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....

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....