Why did the Trump coup fail?
And will we be so lucky next time? I began writing this post on the morning of January 6, when I expected some drama in Congress around the certification of the Biden-Harris victory, along with…
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Let’s talk about election forensics
We are entering the final stretches of a US presidential campaign in which the incumbent president has all but declared in advance that he will not accept the results of the election if he appears…
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Post-election protest in Belarus
The events of the past few weeks in Belarus have been deeply inspiring, as tens of thousands have turned to the streets to demand clean elections, despite brutal crackdowns by the security forces. Despite mass…
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Scraping election data using R and rvest
From time to time, I hope to add small tips and insights here based on my own experience solving research problems–both as a memory aid for myself, and so that others with similar research problems…