Evidence map›Paper›PMID 39609434›Full record

ArticleScientific data2024

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

Shiro Kuriwaki, Mason Reece, Samuel Baltz, Aleksandra Conevska, Joseph R Loffredo, Can Mutlu, Taran Samarth, Kevin E Acevedo Jetter, Zachary Djanogly Garai, Kate Murray and 4 more

Abstract readDataset
PubMed Full text at PMC Publisher
In one paragraph

Article in Scientific data, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
5citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. Article
  3. Article
  4. Article
  5. Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

14 authors.

Shiro Kuriwaki *Yale University, Institution for Social and Policy Studies, New Haven, CT, 06511, USA. shiro.kuriwaki@yale.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-5687-2647
Mason Reece *Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Political Science, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA.ORCID 0009-0009-8761-2344
Samuel BaltzMassachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Political Science, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-4669-7435
Aleksandra ConevskaHarvard University, Department of Government, Cambridge, MA, 02138, USA.
Joseph R LoffredoMassachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Political Science, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-9385-0837
Can MutluHarvard University, Department of Government, Cambridge, MA, 02138, USA.
Taran SamarthYale University, Institution for Social and Policy Studies, New Haven, CT, 06511, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-1170-7605
Kevin E Acevedo JetterMassachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Political Science, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA.
Zachary Djanogly GaraiMassachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Political Science, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA.
Kate MurrayMassachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Political Science, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA.
Shigeo HiranoColumbia University, Department of Political Science, New York, NY, 10027, USA.
Jeffrey B LewisUniversity of California Los Angeles, Department of Political Science, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, USA.
James M SnyderHarvard University, Department of Government, Cambridge, MA, 02138, USA.
Charles StewartMassachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Political Science, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-1428-7308

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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.

Indexed as

Databases, FactualPoliticsHumansUnited States

Identifiers

PMID39609434
PMCPMC11604945

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.