United States Elections Project

American political science website

United States Elections Project
Type of site	Voting statistics
Available in	English
Country of origin	US
Founder(s)	Michael P. McDonald
URL	Home page GitHub early vote statistics Twitter

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]

References

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