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New Report

How we voted in 2022

We are delighted to announce that our report on the 2022 Survey of the Performance of American Elections has been published online, and that the 2022 dataset is now available for researchers to access and use.

Apr 5, 2023

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Have you subscribed to our newsletter yet? The next quarterly installment will go out later this month; click through to keep up-to-date on resources, new data, events, and interesting research from scholars and election officials.

Oct 5, 2022

Announcing our Newest Grant Recipients

We are pleased to announce that we are funding 18 research teams around the country with our new Evolving Election Administration Landscape Grants! Click here to read more & see the full list of recipients and projects.

New Grant Projects

Evolving Election Administration Landscape

Learning from Elections

Working to provide data-driven recommendations to make elections more convenient, secure, transparent, and cost effective.

Ongoing Research

By applying scientific principles to how elections are studied and administered, MEDSL aims to improve the democratic experience for all U.S. voters.

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Research Projects

Using data-driven scientific analysis, we strive to better understand how elections function in the U.S. Read more about our core research, and keep up to date with our newest projects.

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Our Data

Our lab is a clearinghouse for data sets that can fuel studies on elections and how they're conducted. Here you'll find our portal for election data and research tools produced by us and others.

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