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Breaking Down Ranked Choice Voting
With the election results fresh on everyone’s minds, Americans are once again dissatisfied with the two party system and wish for something better. Several states and municipalities have adopted a ranked choice voting system (RCV), with the District of Columbia being the most recent to do so...
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Abstracting Virginia's Elections
Have you ever looked at an election map and thought: How can I make this more confusing? Probably not. But that’s what I’m here to do today. In the world of data science and mathematics, there’s a subfield known as Topological Data Analysis (TDA). What it aims to do is to...
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Why are the Polls So Weird?
If you’ve been keeping up with this election cycle at all, you may have noticed something strange. In the battleground states, pollsters have been reporting the same thing for months: the candidates are within just about 3 points of each other in each and every one of them...
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Stress Testing the Electoral College
Election season is here, with millions of Americans having already submitted their ballots for who will be the next president of the United States. The race to 270 is on. Every election cycle, and increasingly with each one, the legitimacy and usefulness of our Electoral College system is called...
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