Cast vote records: A database of ballots from the 2020 U.S. Election.

Autor: Kuriwaki S; Yale University, Institution for Social and Policy Studies, New Haven, CT, 06511, USA. shiro.kuriwaki@yale.edu., Reece M; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Political Science, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA., Baltz S; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Political Science, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA., Conevska A; Harvard University, Department of Government, Cambridge, MA, 02138, USA., Loffredo JR; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Political Science, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA., Mutlu C; Harvard University, Department of Government, Cambridge, MA, 02138, USA., Samarth T; Yale University, Institution for Social and Policy Studies, New Haven, CT, 06511, USA., Acevedo Jetter KE; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Political Science, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA., Djanogly Garai Z; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Political Science, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA., Murray K; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Political Science, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA., Hirano S; Columbia University, Department of Political Science, New York, NY, 10027, USA., Lewis JB; University of California Los Angeles, Department of Political Science, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, USA., Snyder JM Jr; Harvard University, Department of Government, Cambridge, MA, 02138, USA., Stewart C 3rd; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Political Science, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Scientific data [Sci Data] 2024 Nov 28; Vol. 11 (1), pp. 1304. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Nov 28.
DOI: 10.1038/s41597-024-04017-1
Abstrakt: Ballots are the core records of elections. Electronic records of actual ballots cast (cast vote records) are available to the public in some jurisdictions. However, they have been released in a variety of formats and have not been independently evaluated. Here we introduce a database of cast vote records from the 2020 U.S. general election. We downloaded publicly available unstandardized cast vote records, standardized them into a multi-state database, and extensively compared their totals to certified election results. Our release includes vote records for President, Governor, U.S. Senate and House, and state upper and lower chambers, covering 42.7 million voters in 20 states who voted for more than 2,200 candidates. This database serves as a uniquely granular administrative dataset for studying voting behavior and election administration. Using this data, we show that in battleground states, 1.9 percent of solid Republicans (as defined by their congressional and state legislative voting) in our database split their ticket for Joe Biden, while 1.2 percent of solid Democrats split their ticket for Donald Trump.
Competing Interests: Competing interests: Authors declare no conflicting interests that might be perceived to influence the results and/or discussion reported in this paper. This project was determined as not human subjects research by the MIT and Yale Institutional Review Board (IRB).
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Databáze: MEDLINE
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