Elections

Organizations

• Common Ground Committee

  • Scorecard on reaching across the aisle for national and state politicians

• Cook Political Report

• Democracy Works

• Esri Elections Resources

• Open Elections

• Right Question Institute: "Why Vote?" Tool

• Smithsonian Institution - Young People Shake Up Elections

• Voters Ed

• Who Counts?

Background

• The Primary Problem, Unite America, March 2021

• Esri Elections Resources

• Voter Turnout in 2020, The Fulcrum, Bill Theobald, November 19, 2020

• Democracy by Mail, The New York Times, Fall 2020

• My government students usually register and educate voters - in person. Here's how we're adapting. Joel Snyder, Chalkbeat, August 25, 2020

• Electorate Representation Index: Which States Most Closely Resemble the U.S.?

  • Adam McCann, WalletHub, February 27, 2020

  • 10 states where party planners can host (and avoid) representative primaries

• Should the Electoral College be reformed?, C-SPAN Classroom Deliberations, 2019

• A Preview of 2020 House Elections

  • David Wasserman, Cook Political Report, C-SPAN Classroom Resources, August 20, 2019

• Mapping Early American Elections

• Tweak the Vote

  • Radiolab, WNYC Studies, November 4, 2018

• An Extremely Detailed Map of the 2016 Election

  • Matthew Bloch et al., The New York Times,  July 25, 2018

• Drive Against Gerrymandering Finds New Life in Ballot Initiatives

  • Michael Wines, The New York Times, July 23, 2018

• Vote for Me! For Second Place, at least?

  • Editorial Board, The New York Times, June 9, 2018

• How political opponents became enemies in the U.S.

  • PBS NewsHour Weekend, April 1, 2018

• Sharper State Divide in Congress Seen as ‘New Civil War’

  • Carl Hulse, The New York Times, January 15, 2018

• Renewed Calls for Patriotism over Politics when Drawing District Lines

  • Ailsa Chang and Selena Simmons-Duffin, National Public Radio, September 29, 2017

• Democracy at risk: Solving critical problems threatening U.S. elections

  • Brookings Institution, September 27, 2017

• Weighing the Effect of an Exit of Centrists

  • Jennifer Steinhauer, The New York Times, October 8, 2012

• The Disappearing Political Center: Congress and the Incredible Shrinking Middle

  • Sarah A. Binder, Brookings Institution, September 1, 1996