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....

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....