Jack R. Williams

Welcome

I am a data engineer/researcher who focuses on the administration of American elections. Currently, I am building data pipelines for Democracy Works. Previously, I worked at the MIT Election Data and Science Lab and Center for Election Innovation and Research and I have done analyses and/or collection of election data for CBS News, the Center for Economic and Policy Research, and Progressive International.

Areas of Work

Election Night Reporting and Modeling
Cast Vote Records
Ballot Secrecy and Data Privacy
Election Auditing
Voter Registration
Spatial Methods

Articles

Here are some of my projects that you can read about.

Votes Can Be Confidently Bought in Instant Runoff Elections, and What to Do About It

Williams, Jack and Baltz, Samuel and Stewart III, Charles (March 13, 2023).

One Shift, Two Shifts, Red Shift, Blue Shift: Reported Election Returns in the 2020 Election

Curiel, John and Stewart III, Charles and Williams, Jack (July 9, 2021)

Bolivia dismissed its October elections as fraudulent. Our research found no reason to suspect fraud.

Williams, Jack and Curiel, John (February 27, 2020)

Posts

Rant About WordPress

– Rant About WordPress Why is WordPress so ugly? I had to adapt one of html5up’s templates to a wordpress compatible format because every single one of the presets on their market was ugly. They do have themes, but each one is a bait and switch with the image provided because you have to buy […]

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