Worldwide Elections Guide: US Voters

Voters

U.S. Census: Voting and Registration
Information on reported voting and registration by various demographic and socioeconomic characteristics is collected for the nation in November of congressional and presidential election years in the Current Population Survey (CPS).
United States Elections Project
The United States Elections Project strives to provide timely and accurate election statistics, electoral laws, research reports, and other useful information regarding the United States electoral system. Disseminate research conducted by Dr. Michael McDonald.

Particularly useful for voter turnout data and a blog with detailed information about other data sources (e.g. Current Population Survey)
Cooperative Election Study (CES)
Formerly the Cooperative Congressional Election Study (CCES). A 50,000+ person national stratified sample survey administered by YouGov. Half of the questionnaire consists of Common Content asked of all 50,000+ people, and half of the questionnaire consists of Team Content designed by each individual participating team and asked of a subset of 1,000 people. In addition, several teams may pool their resources to create Group Content.

The survey consists of two waves in election years. In the pre-election wave, respondents answer two-thirds of the questionnaire. This segment of the survey asks about general political attitudes, various demographic factors, assessment of roll call voting choices, political information, and vote intentions. The pre-election wave is in the field from late September to late October. In the post-election wave, respondents answer the other third of the questionnaire, mostly consisting of items related to the election that just occurred. The post-election wave is administered in November.

In non-election years, the survey consists of a single wave conducted in the fall.

The African American Electorate by Hanes Walton; Donald R. Deskins; Sherman Puckett
Call Number: Oversize Geisel, Floor6 JK1924 .W36 2012
ISBN: 9780872895089
Publication Date: 2012-07-20
How have African Americans voted over time? What types of candidates and issues have been effective in drawing people to vote? These are just two of the questions that The African American Electorate: A Statistical History attempts to answer by bringing together all of the extant, fugitive and recently discovered registration data on African-American voters from Colonial America to the present. This pioneering work also traces the history of the laws dealing with enfranchisement and disenfranchisement of African Americans and provides the election return data for African-American candidates in national and sub-national elections over this same time span. Combining insightful narrative, tabular data, and original maps, The African American Electorate offers students and researchers the opportunity, for the first time, to explore the relationship between voters and political candidates, identify critical variables, and situate African Americans' voting behavior and political phenomena in the context of America's political history.

The Potential Impact of Voter Identification Laws on Transgender Voters
Report from the UCLA Williams Institute