Explaining Election Day: How AP collects electorate data

(8 Oct 2024)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:

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Las Vegas – 9 November 2022
1. Various of election workers using machines to count ballots
 
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Washington – 30 September 2024
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Linley Sanders, The Associated Press:
“After an election, vote results tell you who won, but they don’t tell you about the people who voted in that election, what they thought of the candidates or the issues, what really mattered to them while they were casting their ballots. In other words, they don’t tell you the why of the election.”

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Washington – 30 September 2024
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Linley Sanders, The Associated Press:
“That’s the reason that the AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research and The Associated Press created AP VoteCast.”

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4. AP VoteCast logo

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Washington – 30 September 2024
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Linley Sanders, The Associated Press:
"AP VoteCast is a comprehensive survey that tells you what’s on voters’ minds."

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Newton, Massachusetts – 3 September 2024
6. STILL of voters voting

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Detroit – 10 May 2020
7. STILL of voters leaving polling location

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Washington – 30 September 2024
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Linley Sanders, The Associated Press:
"It is different from an exit poll, which relies mostly on in-person interviews that are conducted outside of polling places after people have cast their ballots."

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Washington – 30 September 2024
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Linley Sanders, The Associated Press:
"AP VoteCast was designed to reflect the changes we’ve seen in how people vote."

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Newton, Massachusetts – 3 September 2024
10. STILL of person walking past signs outside polling location

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Coral Gables, Florida – 20 August 2024
11. STILL of voter working on ballot in election booth

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Washington – 30 September 2024
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Linley Sanders, The Associated Press:
"It uses mail, phone and online interviews to capture the views of voters regardless of whether they voted on Election Day or before, in-person or by mail."

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Washington – 30 September 2024
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Linley Sanders, The Associated Press:
"AP VoteCast asks a lot of questions about voters’ demographic backgrounds, their beliefs and their attitudes on the issues, and because of that, we can better understand how people in specific demographic groups voted."

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Cheyenne, Wyoming – 16 August 2022
14. Various of voters voting

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Washington – 30 September 2024
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Linley Sanders, The Associated Press:
"And what issues mattered to them when they were making the decision of who to vote for. We can answer: did older people vote differently than younger people? How did independents vote or union members?"
STORYLINE:
After an election, vote results tell you who won, but they don’t tell you about the people who voted in that election, what they thought of the candidates or the issues, what really mattered to them while they were casting their ballots. In other words, they don’t tell you the why of the election.
 
That’s the reason that the AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research and The Associated Press created AP Vote Cast.
 

We can answer: did older people vote differently than younger people? How did independents vote or union members?

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