The United States Elections Project is a website created and maintained by

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political science professor Michael P. McDonald. It tracks voter turnout for US elections, including early voting. ''

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'' reporter Lisa Lerer called it a "must- bookmark stop for everyone who obsesses about politics". Its data aggregations have been reported in many news sites, including ''The New York Times'', ''

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'', ''

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'', and ''

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'', among others. Data from the project has also been used to create the

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simulator DistrictBuilder, an

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online web app that was created by the Public Mapping Project, which Dr. McDonald founded alongside Dr.

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. Early elections data is obtained through

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of individual state websites, or through scraping the websites of individual counties within a state. The early voting statistics database is hosted on

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. In 2016, it was funded in part by a grant from the

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References

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