I compiled publically available data to create a state level and a county level data set on voting rules and their effect on voting behaviors. The data are from 2012-2020 presidential elections. The results of the ananlysis can be found and downloaded at:
I am now making the data available so that others might conduct further analyses. It is very time consuming to merge all of these data sets so hopefully this effort can be useful to others, especially if they have additional data they can add. The data sources and variables used are documented in the appendix of the full paper found in the link above. The data include voting rules and procedures and demographic variables. Although the data have been checked by project analysts, they were not checked by anyone outside the project. In matching counties accross years, there were some cases for which we could not discern a match. These counties are dropped from the data set. We also were unable to find 2012 data for ceretain variables. We wanted to have counts on the number of polling locations and obtained some data on this but it isincomplete, The two data sets are:
2012-2020 voting rights data can be downloaded (excel file) by clicking the buttons below.