Articles Tagged Elections
9 articles tagged “Elections”.
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2026 Midterm Primary Calendar: The Next 90 Days
A source-based map of key U.S. primary dates in the next 90 days, with notes on runoff schedules and state-by-state variation.
Electoral Count Reform Act: What Changed in Certification
A document-based explainer of Electoral Count Reform provisions and how they changed presidential vote-count procedures.
How to Read Poll Aggregates and Crosstabs Without Getting Misled
A practical polling literacy guide to aggregation basics, subgroup caution, and trend interpretation across election cycles.
Mail Ballot Deadlines and Cure Rules, State by State
How mail-ballot receipt deadlines and signature-cure processes differ across states, and what those differences mean for counting timelines.
Poll Margin of Error vs Total Survey Error
Why margin of error is only one part of polling uncertainty, and how weighting, turnout models, and mode effects shape results.
Provisional Ballots: When They Count and Why
A clear explainer on provisional ballot rules under HAVA, common triggers, and how verification determines whether ballots are counted.
Recount Rules: Automatic vs Candidate-Requested
A state-law explainer of recount triggers, thresholds, and procedural differences between automatic and requested recounts.
Risk-Limiting Audits: How Post-Election Audits Work
What risk-limiting audits test, how they differ from recounts, and why they are designed around statistical confidence thresholds.
Voter Roll Maintenance Under the NVRA
How voter-list maintenance works under federal law, what states can and cannot do, and why list updates are legally constrained.