Allied Projects
The Princeton Election Consortium was a pioneer in poll aggregation, starting in 2004. PEC provides citizens with analytics to help them maximize their impact on U.S. politics. It grew over time, eventually attracting millions of visits and was featured in the New York Times’s presidential coverage.
The election of 2012 revealed the impact and extent of gerrymandering on representation. in 2015, our focus shifted to redistricting, leading to the establishment of the Princeton Gerrymandering Project. We developed information resources and mathematical fairness standards to evaluate district maps. Using our map and computational capabilities, we performed 1 million simulations per state to define party-blind baselines for neutral maps. The Gerrymandering Project’s report card has been used in dozens of states.
Community representation is of increasing importance, and has created a need for citizen input. Representable.org began as a student project, and has matured to a data portal that has been used in dozens of states to drive districting.