This Website from Harvard University serves as an indispensable data source for researchers in social and political science. "The Record Of American Democracy (ROAD) data include election returns, socioeconomic summaries, and demographic measures of the American public at unusually low levels of geographic aggregation." The project, funded by the National Science Foundation, covers every state in the country from 1984 through 1990 (including some off-year elections). Data posted include "voting, registration and census data aggregated to Minor Civil Division groups (a US census demographic district generally the size of a small city)" as well as voting and registration data aggregated to the precinct level. Among other things, these data "should make possible many new studies of legislative redistricting, and associated analyses and forecasts of political and racial fairness, compactness, the consequences of equal population constraints on gerrymanderers, and related issues." The site is divided into two portions: the first offering an extensive online handbook about the acquisition, character, and uses of the data; the second providing the means to access the data. Users may download the data using an SPSS portable zipped file or SAS, Stata, or ASC II applications.