{{short description|American political scientist}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2025}} {{Infobox person |name = Drew Linzer |occupation = Political scientist |alma_mater = UCLA (Ph.D.)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://cddrl.fsi.stanford.edu/people/drew_a_linzer|title=FSI {{!}} CDDRL - Drew Linzer|website=cddrl.fsi.stanford.edu|access-date=6 October 2021}}</ref> |website = {{URL|https://votamatic.org/about-me/}}
}} '''Drew Linzer''' is an American political scientist who serves as the director and chief scientist at Civiqs. He was formerly an assistant professor of political science at Emory University.<ref name = "bbc">{{cite news | url = https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-20246741 | newspaper = BBC News Magazine | title = Drew Linzer: The stats man who predicted Obama's win | date = 2012-11-09 | access-date = 2012-11-09}}</ref> He is known for his psephology site "Votamatic".<ref>{{cite news | url = http://chronicle.com/blogs/percolator/the-rise-of-the-poll-quants-or-the-demise-of-the-tv-pundits/31636 | newspaper = The Chronicle of Higher Education | title = The Rise of the Poll Quants (or, Why Sam Wang Might Eat a Bug) | date = 2012-11-08 | access-date = 2012-11-09}}</ref><ref name = "bbc"/> In 2014, Linzer ran the successful Daily Kos election forecast.<ref>{{cite news | url = https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/monkey-cage/wp/2014/11/05/election-lab-on-track-to-forecast-35-of-36-senate-races-correctly/ | title = Election Lab on track to forecast 35 of 36 Senate races correctly | date = 2014-11-05|author1-link=John M. Sides | author = John Sides | newspaper = The Washington Post | access-date = 2014-11-05}}</ref>
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