Tag: election

Looking for indications of fraud, in North Carolina’s absentee ballots

Certain North Carolina counties have been in the news lately, for suspected election fraud involving absentee ballots in the 2018 election.  Let’s analyze the voter registration and absentee ballot data, to see if we can detect anything suspicious! In order to definitively determine whether fraud & illegal activity occurred, investigators […]

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Where do provisional ballots come from?

There has been a lot of controversy surrounding this year’s midterm election, when it comes to counting the ballots … and I kept hearing the term provisional ballots in the news. But I’m embarrassed to say that I didn’t really know much about provisi…

Building a better election map

The US ‘midterm’ elections have finally started to wind down, and we finally have some (mostly) finalized results to study. But what’s the best way to visualize who won the US congressional seats in each of the 435 districts? Let’s dive into this topic…

Enhancing a congressional district map – one layer at a time

With the recent midterm elections here in the US, I frequently saw congressional district maps popping up in the news. And being a GraphGuy, I wanted to fully understand these maps, to see if I might could improve them. If you’re interested in congress…

Creating a custom ‘I Voted’ sticker

With today being an election day here in the US, I see a lot of people wearing the ‘I Voted’ sticker. This got me wondering if I could create my own sticker … using SAS software and simple graphics primitives. 🙂 So I started by using Proc Gslide to create […]

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Survey says! …. US voters are _________.

Elections are in the news again, therefore I have been on the lookout for interesting graphs. I recently found some graphs of the Census Current Population Survey (CPS) Voting and Registration Supplement data, and tried to improve them. Follow along if…

When will women control state legislatures?

In FiveThirtyEight’s Significant Digits section, they recently mentioned that nine states could potentially have 50% or more females in their legislature after the upcoming election. My first thought – I need to see some graphs! They linked to a New Yo…

Fortune 500 – 30 biggest political donors!

Why do people donate money to politicians and political parties? Sometimes it’s because they agree with the platform, but sometimes it might be for potential financial benefits. When it comes to large donations from Fortune 500 companies, I suspect the…