With the 2024 U.S. presidential election fast approaching on Tuesday, November 5th, we want to share with you resources about the election that highlight the work conducted by Yale faculty and students. Also included are links to a few sites that explain some of the basic concepts of our presidential electoral process, and a couple of links to non-Yale events that may be of interest. We hope these resources will assist in your understanding and engagement with this historic election.
This page will be updated throughout the month of October, so please check back for additional resources. If you have a resource or upcoming event you would like to highlight, please email our Associate Director for Engagement, Assessment and Operations, Molly Hampton, to get it added.
Rule of Law Clinic Publishes Guides to Protect Voters From Intimidation
Yale Political Scientist Akhil Akmar - The Electoral College: How Presidents are Elected
BBC News - A Simple Guide to the 2024 Election
Wikipedia - Election Basics
USA.GOV - How to Become President of the USA
School House Rock - Electoral College (classic resource)
Yale Political Scientist Jacob Hacker
Yale History Professor Timothy Snyder - The Ethical Meaning of a Vote for Donald Trump
Yale Law & History Professor Samuel Moyn - What Might The Supreme Court Look Like In The Future?
Anxious About Election Results? Here’s What’s Happening in Your Brain as You Wait
How to Handle Election Anxiety, According to Mental Health Experts (including Yale's Laurie Santos)
Counting Votes & What to Expect on Election Day
Election Day & Post-Election Guide
Yale Political Scientist Alexander Coppock
Yale Political Scientist Joshua Kalla
- How Important is Door Knocking, Anyway?
- Does Door Knocking Matter?
- An Experiment in Wisconsin Changed Voters' Minds about Trump
Yale’s Nicholas Christakis
Yale SOM's Heidi Brooks
Yale Law Professor Akhil Reed Ahmar
Yale Daily News Coverage
- Students Take Gap Semesters to Work on Campaigns
- Faculty Organize Community Voting Outreach
- Voters Find Mistakes In Absentee Ballots Three Weeks Before Election
- EVC, YCC and Yale Dems Mobilize Students in Advance of General Election
- New Haven, Yale Groups Host Voter Registration Rally and Health Summit
- Democratic party leaders hold GOTV rally
- City polling sites information contradicts state authorities, generating voter confusion
- Despite new policy, students face delays in election mail received at residential colleges
- SURVEY: While some students struggled with their states’ voting processes, most undergrads did not find voting to be difficult
- From the White House to Hillhouse: How the election outcome may impact Yale
- Black communities prepare for high-stakes election
- Latinx community members urge New Haven to “vote against hate”
- New Haveners hold demonstrations to demand ‘all votes be counted’
Yale votes: Students aim to make voting part of campus life
MFIA and Protect Democracy Support AP’s Election Transparency Project
Yale Historian Beverly Gage
Yale Alum, Journalist, and Historian David Shimer - U.S. Electoral Interference
Yale Insights - Can We Protect Our Election from the Bots?
Yale Program on Climate Change
