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By applying scientific principles to how elections are studied and administered, MEDSL aims to improve the democratic experience for all U.S. voters.
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Voter registration lists require constant maintenance. To keep them accurate, election officials rely on a number of data sources, but it gets particularly tricky across state lines. We looked at a few ways states have been meeting this challenge by sharing data with each other: buff.ly/u6kG7il
Interstate voter registration data matching | MIT Election Lab
Aside from the sheer volume of major life events affecting voter registrations, the challenge is amplified by the simple fact that individuals do not provide updates to their local election offices…
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Thank you for the shout out; so glad to hear you're finding them useful!
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Join us on Oct 1 at 11 am Pacific for the next segment of the #ElectionScienceOfficeHours webinar & podcast, part of the #CaltechElectionIntegrity project. Host @rmichaelalvarez.bsky.social welcomes @voting.works Exec Director @benadida.com to talk all things #ElectionTechnology. @caltech.edu
Election geeks, if you haven't heard, the annual ESRA conference is looking for hosts for the 2026 and 2027 conferences! More info available on their site; a great chance to show off your center &/or state:
Call for Proposals to Host
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Hopefully we will have most states up within the next couple of months, and everything complete by the end of the year!
If you've been following our precinct-level data closely, you might have noticed some updates last week! We've now added Hawaii, New Mexico, and Kansas to the 2024 dataset. Check out all of our available states on our GitHub: buff.ly/k6S0zTU
🚨Last chance!🚨 Our webinar all about the 2024 Survey of the Performance of American Election is happening TODAY, 7/28, at 1pm ET! Don't miss out; register to join us now: buff.ly/8G8ET5G
Election friends, have you signed up for our webinar tomorrow? Join our director from 1-2pm ET tomorrow, July 29, as he leads a tour through the 2024 SPAE data & what it shows us about voters' experiences. Register today:
Survey of the Performance of American Elections | MIT Election Lab
The Survey of the Performance of American Elections (SPAE) is the only public opinion project in the country that is dedicated explicitly to understanding how voters themselves experience the…
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In the newsletter this week, "How We Voted 2024", the Survey of the Performance of American Elections from @mitelectionlab.bsky.social . That, plus so much more election news and information: electionline.org/electionline...
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Have you registered for our webinar on Tuesday, 7/29 yet? If not, block off your calendar for 2pm ET and join our director for a deep dive into how Americans voted in 2024, and how those voters experienced the 2024 election process. Don't miss out; sign up today! buff.ly/sfETWgb
How did voters experience the election process in 2024? Our latest report details our findings from the 2024 Survey of the Performance of American Elections; you can find it (and the data behind it!) on our website now: buff.ly/40I25IF
Good morning election friends! We've just launched the 2024 report + data from the Survey of the Performance of American Elections, which examines voter experiences from the perspective of voters themselves. Find it here: buff.ly/F3OWNkP
Hi David, thanks for the heads up! You may need to download the 3 files individually, but we'll look into this to ensure there are no wires crossed on our end.
Good morning, election data nerds! Here's a Monday morning present for you: we've finished updating our county-level presidential election results dataset to include 2024. The full dataset (covering 2000-2024) is now available on our Dataverse: buff.ly/eUGYc1h
For more information about the event, visit the EAC's website: buff.ly/xbCdypi
Don't miss out on today's EAC Election Data Summit! Tune into the panels and hear from election officials, academics, and others as they discuss new data and innovative research on election administration: buff.ly/eNqkpQb
2025 EAC Data Summit: Election Administration by the Numbers
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Attention election data geeks! If you missed it earlier this week, we're here to remind you that the U.S. EAC has released the 2024 EAVS report. Dive into the data and get your weekend reading material here: buff.ly/udX7kHb
Hot off the presses! Our team's just published a paper examining the accuracy of vote counting in 2020, using a nation-scale dataset painstakingly compiled from postelection audits. tl;dr: Americans' votes were counted correctly in 2020. Full details:
Audits of the 2020 American election show an accurate vote count
This study quantifies the accuracy of vote counting in a collection of highly contested and consequential electoral contests.
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Another day, another state added to our 2024 precinct-level election dataset! We've just added Kentucky to the dataset; too late for the Derby, but hopefully right on time for you to use in your analysis & research! Find all of the data here: buff.ly/2l4Oh0i
Eagle-eyed followers might have noticed that our map of precinct data has a few updates! We've now added Florida and South Carolina precinct data to our repository. Check them out, and stay tuned for a few more states that we're juuuuuuust about to finish: buff.ly/2l4Oh0i