SAM Projects SAMANDA · internal to SAM

SAM analytical projects

Work built on the Reference-Data archive. Each project keeps its data and its numbers in its own repository; this section is where the findings are read.

Current

Vote Safe preliminary

Differential electoral participation by race at precinct level, 2024 general election. Six focus areas across eight counties in four states.

CVAP × certified precinct returns · figures in the report

2026 Midterms

County turnout and election results, 2010–2024: how well SAM's county model predicted them, by state, election and county, and each county's 2026 probability for the Senate, House and governor races.

TURN0/TURN1 model run · AUROC against certified results · data from Reference-Data

Where the data comes from

Every project here derives from Reference-Data, the archive of cleaned, standardised, analysis-ready reference data and the validation battery that scores it. Projects acquire no data of their own: if a figure appears in a project, the holding behind it is registered and validated in the archive first.