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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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…
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…
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…
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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Have you noticed a lot of graphs popping up lately, about politicians, voters, and elections? … Well of course – it’s an election year! If you follow my blog posts, then you’re probably a bit “smarter than the average bear” when it comes to scrutiniz…
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…
Can felons vote? This seemed like a simple question, but I realized that I wasn’t 100% sure of the answer. Therefore I looked into the data … and apparently “it depends”. Follow along and see how I created a map to help answer this question. But befo…