<div><div></div><p>The last year for The Center for Election Science was transformative. We <a href="https://www.electionscience.org/ces-updates/open-philanthropy-project-awards-ces-its-first-major-grant/?highlight=open%20philanthropy%20project" target="_blank" data-rt-link-type="external">received 

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<div><p>Runoffs get touted as a solution for vote splitting between similar candidates and overall better elections. Certainly, just about anything is better than the choose-one plurality voting that the US uses so extensively. But are runoffs really the great solution we make them out to be? (We al

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<div><p>Voters aren’t always honest. But what would it look like if they were? We found out.</p><p>Here’s how we got respondents to be honest. We asked them to indicate on a 0-5 scale how much they would like each candidate to be elected president—regardless of the candidate’s actual likelihood of b

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<div><p>We have our presidential election data! We’re going to be publishing multiple articles because there is just SO MUCH data.</p><p>Here’s the gist of what we’ve done. Our analysis team used <a href="http://andrewgelman.com/2016/10/12/31398/" rel="noopener noreferrer">a technique called Mr. P(l

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A Blueprint To Better Presidential Elections

<div><p><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Maine_Ranked_Choice_Voting_Initiative,_Question_5_(2016)" rel="noopener noreferrer">Measure 5</a>&nbsp;puts ranked choice voting (RCV) on the ballot to be used statewide. RCV is worthwhile to support because it’s better than Maine’s current plurality voting s

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Aaron Hamlin

Articles by Aaron Hamlin