Here at 538, we think a big part of our jobs during election season is to explore and explain how much trust you should put ...

Less than 24 hours after Donald Trump was elected the 47th president of the United States, social media users began pushing ...

Exit polls don’t have a very good track record, and they can contribute to misleading narratives on election night.

According to a late October poll, nearly 8 in 10 adults said the future of the nation is "a significant source of stress in their lives." ...

Because the US straddles multiple time zones, there is no grand moment when the result of a nationwide exit poll is announced. But, says Jon Sopel, TV networks will ‘call’ a state for the Democrats or ...

Tuesday, Nov. 5, is Election Day in Nevada and throughout the U.S., with Washoe County voting locations set to open at 7 a.m. and continue through 7 p.m. Anyone in line by 7 p.m. will be able to vote.

If you look at Katrina, Hurricane Michael, it appears that this mattered. In other words, voting was down after those ...

Poll watchers are ordinary citizens who volunteer to observe elections on behalf of an organization, but what can they do?

Through Monday, Nov. 4, 83 million Americans had already cast their ballots in the 2024 election. On Tuesday, Nov. 5 - Election Day - millions more will join them.

We’ll have a results map that will tell you when a state is called for former President Donald Trump or Vice President Kamala ...

But what are they and how do they work? Exit polls are surveys conducted as voters leave their polling places on Election Day ...

One tool used to try to make sense of the madness are exit polls, which are usually conducted as voters leave, or exit their voting location. According to NBC News, it is the only national survey of ...