Elections

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Vote of Confidence: Securing the 2020 Election

Trust in election results begins with faith in our election systems   US mail in the spotlight  Absentee ballots, also called voting by mail, is a hot topic. The pandemic is forcing everyone to re-think what they’ll do this year. Many states expanded mail-in voting and, according to the Washington Post, up to 77% of Americans can now vote by mail. The […]

August 17, 2020 2 min read
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Polls emerge as the biggest losers in the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election. Could big data…

In the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election, we witnessed the stunning and unexpected defeat of a methodology in addition to a candidate: poll-based election predictions. November 8, 2016 was a spectacular failure of poll-based predictions, fast on the heels of the spectacular failure of the poll-based predictions in the 2015 U.K. General Election. Since we have […]

November 9, 2016 5 min read