Data and documentation for analyzing voter turnout and ballot rejections across the 2016, 2020, and 2024 general elections. It covers seven battleground counties.
Use Cases
- Analyze trends in voter turnout across the 2016, 2020, and 2024 election cycles in seven battleground counties.
- Investigate patterns of ballot rejections and their potential correlation with demographic or structural factors.
- Compare election administration outcomes, such as turnout and rejection rates, between different battleground counties.
Strengths
- Covers three major U.S. general elections: 2016, 2020, and 2024.
- Focuses on seven battleground counties, providing a targeted geographic scope for analysis.
- Includes both data files and R scripts for replication of the original analyses.
Limitations
- The specific column names, row count, and file size are unknown, limiting assessment of granularity and scope.
- Data is limited to seven counties, which may not be representative of broader national or state-level trends.
- The absence of sample data prevents verification of data structure and variable definitions.
Provenance
- Source
- UCS Research Data via Dataverse.
- Collection Method
- Data and documentation related to analyses of voter turnout and ballot rejections.
- Time Range
- 2016, 2020, and 2024 general elections.
- Freshness
- Last updated February 2026.
- Geography
- Seven battleground counties in the United States.