United States Elections Project Explained

United States Elections Project
Website Type:Voting statistics
Language:English
Founder:Michael P. McDonald
Country Of Origin:US
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The United States Elections Project is a website created and maintained by University of Florida political science professor Michael P. McDonald.[1] It tracks voter turnout for US elections, including early voting.[2] The New York Times reporter Lisa Lerer called it a "must-bookmark stop for everyone who obsesses about politics".[3] Its data aggregations have been reported in many news sites, including The New York Times, Time,[4] Axios,[5] and USA Today,[6] among others. Data from the project has also been used to create the redistricting simulator DistrictBuilder, an open source online web app that was created by the Public Mapping Project, which Dr. McDonald founded alongside Dr. Micah Altman.[7]

Early elections data is obtained through data scraping of individual state websites, or through scraping the websites of individual counties within a state. The early voting statistics database is hosted on GitHub.[8] [9] In 2016, it was funded in part by a grant from the Hewlett Foundation.[10]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: United States Election Project. 22 October 2020.
  2. News: Early Voting Analysis: Huge Turnout By Democrats. 18 October 2020. 22 October 2020. NPR. Miles. Parks.
  3. News: What We Know About the Election From Early Voting. Lisa. Lerer. 21 October 2020. 22 October 2020. The New York Times.
  4. News: Trump's Calls for an "Army" of Poll Watchers is Renewing Fears Of Voter Intimidation. Time. W. J.. Hennigan. Vera. Bergengruen. 22 October 2020. 22 October 2020.
  5. Web site: In photos: Florida breaks record for in-person early voting. Orion. Rummler. 20 October 2020. 22 October 2020. Axios.
  6. News: 'Unprecedented': Voter turnout in election could reach highest rate in more than a century. USA Today. Joey. Garrison. 21 October 2020. 22 October 2020.
  7. Web site: About - Public Mapping Project . 2022-03-25 . www.publicmapping.org.
  8. Web site: Colorado Early Voting Statistics. U. S. Elections Project. 22 October 2020.
  9. Web site: Ohio Early Voting Statistics. U. S. Elections Project. 22 October 2020.
  10. Web site: University of Florida: For Support Of The United States Election Project. Hewlett Foundation. 22 October 2020. 2016.

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