Elections

Organizations

• Campaign Legal Center
  • Democracy Decoded (podcast)
• Common Ground Committee
  • Scorecard on reaching across the aisle for national and state politicians
• Cook Political Report
• Democracy Works
• Election Science
• Electoral Innovation Lab
  • Vote Maximizer
• Esri Elections Resources
• National Geographic Education
  • Voting Process
• News Literacy Project
  • Misinformation Dashboard: Election 2024
• Open Elections
• RetroReport
  • Political Parties and Conventions Collection
• Right Question Institute: "Why Vote?" Tool
• Smithsonian Institution - Young People Shake Up Elections
• Voters Ed
• Who Counts?

Background

• No country still uses an electoral college - except the U.S., The Fulcrum, Joshua Holzer, October 18, 2024
• Closed primaries, gerrymandering eliminate competition for House seats, The Fulcrum, David Meyers, October 11, 2024
• How Campaigns Use Psychology To Get Out The Vote, Science Friday, Guest: Jon Krosnick, October 4, 2024
• What is ranked-choice voting anyway?, The Fulcrum, Celeste Landry, September 11, 2024
• Cross-Partisan Project 2025, The Fulcrum, 2024
• 5 things to know about election administration funding: A research-based fact sheet, Clark Merrefield, The Fulcrum, May 23, 2024
• Do Security Cameras at Polling Stations Increase or Undermine Voter Trust, Don Stephens, CCTV Camera World, March 10, 2024 - Thanks to an eagle-eyed student for this addition to the resources.
• What if election campaigns inspired us to dream bigger? Suzette Brooks Masters, The Fulcrum, July 3, 2023
• While your whole state votes together for U.S. Senators, you might not be sure who else votes with you in your district for U.S. House or State Representatives.  Get to know your neighbors with an activity from the U.S. Census or follow Wisconsin's example to "Know Your Voting Map and Why It Matters".
• 4 reasons why abortion laws often clash with the majority's position in the U.S., Matthew A. Baum, Alauna Safarpour, and Kristin Lunz Trujillo, Ohio Capital Journal, August 29, 2022
  • Gerrymandering | Low and Uneven Voter Turnout | Design of American Political Institution | Geographic Polarization
• 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