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Hopefully we will have most states up within the next couple of months, and everything complete by the end of the year!

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A hex map of the United States, titled "Progress of 2024 precinct data." Most states are still colored grey, indicating that our team hasn't yet cleaned and posted their precinct-level election results. 17 states are now bright pink, indicating that we HAVE collected, cleaned, and posted their data! Pink states are: MT, MN, SD, NH, IL, KY, TN, VA, DE, NC, SC, DC, FL, NM, OK, KS, and HI.

If you've been following our precinct-level data closely, you might have noticed some updates last week! We've now added Hawaii, New Mexico, and Kansas to the 2024 dataset. Check out all of our available states on our GitHub: buff.ly/k6S0zTU

🚨Last chance!🚨 Our webinar all about the 2024 Survey of the Performance of American Election is happening TODAY, 7/28, at 1pm ET! Don't miss out; register to join us now: buff.ly/8G8ET5G

Survey of the Performance of American Elections | MIT Election Lab The Survey of the Performance of American Elections (SPAE) is the only public opinion project in the country that is dedicated explicitly to understanding how voters themselves experience the…

Election friends, have you signed up for our webinar tomorrow? Join our director from 1-2pm ET tomorrow, July 29, as he leads a tour through the 2024 SPAE data & what it shows us about voters' experiences. Register today:

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In the newsletter this week, "How We Voted 2024", the Survey of the Performance of American Elections from @mitelectionlab.bsky.social . That, plus so much more election news and information: electionline.org/electionline...

Have you registered for our webinar on Tuesday, 7/29 yet? If not, block off your calendar for 2pm ET and join our director for a deep dive into how Americans voted in 2024, and how those voters experienced the 2024 election process. Don't miss out; sign up today! buff.ly/sfETWgb

Survey of the Performance of American Elections | MIT Election Lab The Survey of the Performance of American Elections (SPAE) is the only public opinion project in the country that is dedicated explicitly to understanding how voters themselves experience the…

ICYMI: Earlier this week, we released the 2024 Survey of the Performance of American Elections. Even better: we're hosting a webinar next Tuesday, 7/29 at 2pm ET all about it! Learn more and register today:

How did voters experience the election process in 2024? Our latest report details our findings from the 2024 Survey of the Performance of American Elections; you can find it (and the data behind it!) on our website now: buff.ly/40I25IF

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: How We Voted in 2024: A Deep Dive. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar. Join the MIT Election Lab's founding director, Charles Stewart, for a detailed tour through the SPAE and the 2024 data.

Looking to learn more about our newest report + data from the 2024 Survey of the Performance of American Elections? Join our webinar on July 29 at 1pm ET to hear directly from our director, Charles Stewart. Register today: buff.ly/vE4J11N

Good morning election friends! We've just launched the 2024 report + data from the Survey of the Performance of American Elections, which examines voter experiences from the perspective of voters themselves. Find it here: buff.ly/F3OWNkP

Hi David, thanks for the heads up! You may need to download the 3 files individually, but we'll look into this to ensure there are no wires crossed on our end.

Good morning, election data nerds! Here's a Monday morning present for you: we've finished updating our county-level presidential election results dataset to include 2024. The full dataset (covering 2000-2024) is now available on our Dataverse: buff.ly/eUGYc1h

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2025 EAC Data Summit: Election Administration by the Numbers

Don't miss out on today's EAC Election Data Summit! Tune into the panels and hear from election officials, academics, and others as they discuss new data and innovative research on election administration: buff.ly/eNqkpQb

Attention election data geeks! If you missed it earlier this week, we're here to remind you that the U.S. EAC has released the 2024 EAVS report. Dive into the data and get your weekend reading material here: buff.ly/udX7kHb

Hot off the presses! Our team's just published a paper examining the accuracy of vote counting in 2020, using a nation-scale dataset painstakingly compiled from postelection audits. tl;dr: Americans' votes were counted correctly in 2020. Full details:

A hex map of the United States. Most states are greyed out, but now 12 states are hot pink, indicating their data have been collected, cleaned, and published by our team. States available are now: DC, DE, NC, SC, FL, TN, KY, IL, MN, SD, OK, and MT.

Another day, another state added to our 2024 precinct-level election dataset! We've just added Kentucky to the dataset; too late for the Derby, but hopefully right on time for you to use in your analysis & research! Find all of the data here: buff.ly/2l4Oh0i

A hex map of the United States. Most states are greyed out, but 11 states are now hot pink, signifying that our team has collected, cleaned, and posted their precinct-level election data! Available states are: DC, DE, NC, SC, FL, TN, IL, OK, MN, SD, and MT.

Eagle-eyed followers might have noticed that our map of precinct data has a few updates! We've now added Florida and South Carolina precinct data to our repository. Check them out, and stay tuned for a few more states that we're juuuuuuust about to finish: buff.ly/2l4Oh0i

The number of ballots applied for, sent, and returned in Wisconsin, from early March through today, in both 2025 and 2023. In 2023, 450,000 ballots had been applied for and 446,000 had been sent as of five days before the election. This year, 627,000 ballots have been applied for and 623,000 have been sent to voters. In 2023, 310,000 ballots had been returned by this point in the election calendar, compared to 475,000 this year. Whereas 122,000 in-person absentee votes were cast by this point in 2023, 242,000 have been cast this cycle. Note that data reporting for the absentee voting window began about a week earlier this year when compared to 2023.

This scatterplot plots each Wisconsin county's proportion of requested absentee ballots for the 2025 Spring Election (vertical axis) against that proportion from the 2023 Spring Election. In both cases, data is from five days before Election Day. Counties along the diagonal line made up an equal proportion of the requested absentee ballots at this point in the 2023 and 2025 Spring Elections. Milwaukee and Dane Counties, which have historically been regarded as Democratic strongholds, comprise less of the total requested absentee ballots in 2025 than they did in 2023, while Waukesha and Washington Counties, which have traditionally had a Republican-leaning electorate, constitute a larger proportion this spring. Note: This is not predictive of outcomes. It may simply be a sign of Republicans being more likely to vote absentee in 2025 than in 2023.

Today we have *two* graphs of election administration data to update you on Wisconsin's spring election. 1st: our usual absentee visual, updated through today. 2nd: a look at counties' proportions of absentee ballots for 2025 vs. 2023. See the alt-text or visit buff.ly/envT3fn for more info!

The number of ballots applied for, sent, and returned in Wisconsin, from early March through today, in both 2025 and 2023. In 2023, 429,000 ballots had been applied for and 425,000 had been sent as of six days before the election. This year, 582,000 ballots have been applied for and 578,000 have been sent to voters. In 2023, 268,000 ballots had been returned by this point in the election calendar, compared to almost 408,000 this year. Whereas 103,000 in-person absentee votes were cast by this point in 2023, 200,000 have been cast this cycle. Note that data reporting for the absentee voting window began about a week earlier this year when compared to 2023.

In Wisconsin's spring election this year, 408k absentee ballots have been returned so far. Visit buff.ly/QniyKcO to see more of our work tracking election administration data.

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The number of ballots applied for, sent, and returned in Wisconsin, from early March through today, in both 2025 and 2023. In 2023, 409,000 ballots had been applied for and 405,000 had been sent as of one week before the election. This year, 539,000 ballots have been applied for and 534,000 have been sent to voters. In 2023, 233,000 ballots had been returned by this point in the election calendar, compared to almost 346,000 this year. Whereas 84,000 in-person absentee votes were cast by this point in 2023, 159,000 have been cast this cycle. Note that data reporting for the absentee voting window began about a week earlier this year when compared to 2023.

Are you following the spring Wisconsin election? So are we! Here's a reminder that we are posting regular updates as we track election administration data over at buff.ly/AA0x5RK. For more info on what we're doing, check out our blog post: buff.ly/Bdvv85q

YouTube video by Linde Center for Science, Society, and Policy January 16, 2025 - Information and Voter Views of Election Integrity

Next up from the @caltech.edu LCSSP conference - “Trust and Integrity in the 2024 Election: The View from the Voters” is the keynote from @charlesstewartiii.bsky.social, Director of the @mitelectionlab.bsky.social. This session was moderated by Betsy Sinclair, WashU
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Kicking Off Our 2025 Election Season | MIT Election Lab Our work as part of the Stanford-MIT Elections Performance Central continues!

For more info about what we're up to, check out our latest blog post: buff.ly/1mQQz07

The number of ballots applied for, sent, and returned in Wisconsin, from early March through today, in both 2025 and 2023. In 2023, 327,000 ballots had been applied for and 319,000 had been sent on the 13th day before the election. This year, 393,000 ballots have been applied for and 385,000 have been sent to voters. In 2023, 57,000 ballots had been returned by this point in the election calendar, compared to almost 86,000 this year. Whereas 15,000 in-person absentee votes were cast by this point in 2023, 34,000 have been cast this cycle. It is important to note that the absentee voting window is about a week longer this year than in 2023.

ICYMI: we're tracking interesting data from a few state elections this year, starting with Wisconsin! The Badger State's begun absentee voting for its spring election; here's a look at what the ballot numbers so far look like compared to 2023:

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This plot compares the total number of Wisconsin registered voters in each of the the six months before the 2025 and 2023 Spring Elections. Both years saw a spike in registrants in the data reported after a federal general election, and a gradual drop-off thereafter. In 2023, there were about 3,600,000 registered voters at the beginning of March. By comparison, in 2025, that figure was just under 3,850,000.

The number of ballots applied for, sent, and returned in Wisconsin, from early March through today, in both 2025 and 2023. In 2023, just over 300,000 ballots had been applied for and nearly all had been sent on the 13th day before the election. This year, 352,000 ballots have been applied for and 343,000 have been sent to voters. In 2023, 31,000 ballots had been returned by this point in the election calendar, compared to almost 36,000 this year. It is important to note that the absentee voting window is about a week longer this year than in 2023.

There's no federal election this year, but elections are still happening! WI kicks off early voting for a spring election today, and more states have elections later this year. We'll be following a few & providing data updates; read our blog for more info! buff.ly/EfttUMM

A hex map of the United States. Most states are colored grey, but 9 states are hot pink, indicating that they have been added to our dataset of 2024 precinct data. Those states are: Montana, Minnesota (new!), South Dakota, Illinois (new!), Oklahoma, Tennessee, North Carolina, Delaware, and DC.

Happy Friday, election geeks! We're showing our love for you today by bringing you not one but TWO new states, just added to our 2024 precinct election data: https://buff.ly/4jSaoqR

How long did it take to count the vote in 2024? | MIT Election Lab Previewing our forthcoming report for the Stanford-MIT Elections Performance Central

As we finalize our post-election report, don't miss our look at how long it took to count the vote in 2024, and how that compared to 2020: