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MIT Election Lab
Nov 16, 2021
Retaining Election Officials to Secure Future Elections
Retaining Election Officials to Secure Future Elections
A look at some of the steps state and local governments can take
MIT Election Lab
Nov 9, 2021
Why do some States make Voting Difficult?
Why do some States make Voting Difficult?
The MIT Election Data and Science Lab helps highlight new research and interesting ideas in election science, and is a proud co-sponsor of…
MIT Election Lab
Nov 5, 2021
How Do Local Election Officials Reach New Voters?
How Do Local Election Officials Reach New Voters?
The MIT Election Data and Science Lab helps highlight new research and interesting ideas in election science, and is a proud co-sponsor of…
MIT Election Lab
Nov 4, 2021
Research Roundup
Volume 1
MIT Election Lab
Oct 13, 2021
Gerrymandering, Turnout, and Lazy Legislators
Gerrymandering, Turnout, and Lazy Legislators
The MIT Election Data and Science Lab helps highlight new research and interesting ideas in election science, and is a proud co-sponsor of…
MIT Election Lab
Sep 3, 2021
Rescheduling Local Elections to Make Democracy More Representative
Rescheduling Local Elections to Make Democracy More Representative
The MIT Election Data and Science Lab helps highlight new research and interesting ideas in election science, and is a proud co-sponsor of…
MIT Election Lab
Sep 1, 2021
Watchers at the Polls
Watchers at the Polls
The Effect of Partisan Poll Watchers on Perceptions of Electoral Fairness
MIT Election Lab
Aug 31, 2021
How Many Naked Ballots Were Cast in Pennsylvania’s 2020 General Election?
How Many Naked Ballots Were Cast in Pennsylvania’s 2020 General Election?
The MIT Election Data and Science Lab helps highlight new research and interesting ideas in election science, and is a proud co-sponsor of…
MIT Election Lab
Aug 26, 2021
Don’t Dismiss Digital Immigrants
Don’t Dismiss Digital Immigrants
Poll Workers and New Election Technologies
MIT Election Lab
Aug 25, 2021
Evaluating Election Performance in the Era of the Big Lie
Evaluating Election Performance in the Era of the Big Lie
Our post today is from the MIT Election Lab’s Elections Performance Index site, and was written by Charles Stewart III, director of the MIT…
MIT Election Lab
Aug 23, 2021
The Election Administration and Voting Survey
The Election Administration and Voting Survey
A critical tool for researchers in election science
MIT Election Lab
Aug 16, 2021
Local Election Official Use of Websites and Social Media During the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election
Local Election Official Use of Websites and Social Media During the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election
Today’s post was written by Mara Suttman-Lea, an Assistant Professor of American Politics at the Department of Government and International…
MIT Election Lab
Jun 17, 2021
COVID-19 and Polling Place Access in Wisconsin
COVID-19 and Polling Place Access in Wisconsin
Today’s post was written by John Curiel, research scientist at the MIT Election Data and Science Lab, and Jesse Clark, postdoctoral…
MIT Election Lab
Jun 15, 2021
A Powerful Tool for Election Analysis
New from the MIT Election Data + Science Lab
MIT Election Lab
May 28, 2021
The Blue Shift in the 2020 Election
The Blue Shift in the 2020 Election
A look at the 2020 election counts, results, and reporting
MIT Election Lab
Apr 27, 2021
How we voted in 2020
How we voted in 2020
A new look at the data
MIT Election Lab
Mar 29, 2021
The Effect of Ranked-Choice Voting in Maine
Written by Jesse Clark, a graduate researcher at the MIT Election Lab and a Ph.D. candidate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
MIT Election Lab
Mar 18, 2021
Measuring and Managing Splits in Election Administration
Measuring and Managing Splits in Election Administration
Today’s post was written by John Curiel, research scientist at the MIT Election Data + Science Lab.
MIT Election Lab
Feb 17, 2021
Partisan Gerrymandering, Clustering, or Both?
Partisan Gerrymandering, Clustering, or Both?
A New Approach to a Persistent Question
MIT Election Lab
Jan 29, 2021
A Summary of the 2020 Election: Survey on the Performance of American Elections
A Summary of the 2020 Election: Survey on the Performance of American Elections
By Charles Stewart III
MIT Election Lab
Jan 22, 2021
Can Voter Suppression Increase Electoral Bias?
Can Voter Suppression Increase Electoral Bias?
By Bernard Tamas, Associate Professor of Political Science, Valdosta State University
MIT Election Lab
Dec 18, 2020
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