One and one is two, two and two makes four, four and four becomes eight and on and on and on. It doesn’t matter where it happens. It doesn’t matter if you are counting pencils or puppies or people.

To American voters, the process of electing a president and other officials may be difficult to explain and understand. For America’s math teachers, the system represents a gold mine for real-life ...

Terence Tao, one of the world’s foremost mathematicians, who is often called the “Mozart of Math,” would rather not talk politics. “I do scientific research,” Tao said. “I vote, I sign a petition, but ...

After the election, a new theory spread quickly on TikTok that a heroic presidential candidate was quietly investigating corrupt deep-state actors who rigged the results, waiting in the wings until ...

Some graduate students studying under UC Santa Barbara computer engineer Behrooz Parhami are in for an eye-opening class on one of the world’s timeliest topics: elections math. As U.S. voters prepare ...

From troubling election denialism to rampant misinformation about voter fraud, there are already multiple respects in which this year’s presidential election feels like 2020 déjà vu. Recently, another ...

Months before voters went to the polls in November, a group of election skeptics based in North Carolina gathered on a call and discussed what actions to take if they doubted any of the results. One ...

This story first appeared at ProPublica. ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. Months ...

The U.S. Supreme Court rejected a controversial legal theory Tuesday advanced by North Carolina’s GOP legislative leaders in a nationally watched case in which they had argued that state courts ...