When it comes to explaining the outcome of elections, one of the most important tools that AP turns to is AP VoteCast, its wide-ranging survey of the American electorate.
With no single U.S. government agency or federal commission that tallies results and declares winners, AP has stepped in to play a pivotal role in the American democracy since the middle of the 19th ...
There’s a saying on the Elections team: what AP does to count the vote and declare winners in an American presidential election is the world’s single largest act of journalism. In all, about 5,000 ...