Decision Desk HQ

Decision Desk HQ is an American website that focuses on reporting election results in the United States. The website was founded in 2012 by Brandon Finnigan as an alternative to what he deemed "slow" election calls by the Associated Press. The company's president is Drew McCoy. "Decision Desk HQ" uses an application programming interface (API) to get election results at the same time as they are published on websites provided by election officials.
Role in the 2020 presidential election.
In 2020, "Decision Desk HQ" was considered one of nine "official sources" for election results by Twitter and provided election results to "The Economist", "BuzzFeed", "Vox" and "Business Insider".
"Decision Desk HQ" was the first major election reporting organization to call the 2020 United States presidential election for Joe Biden. It made this call after projecting that Biden's lead in outstanding mail-in ballots from Pennsylvania left incumbent Donald Trump with no realistic path to win Pennsylvania and its 20 electoral votes. McCoy told "Vox" that the great majority of mail-in ballots from Pennsylvania were from heavily Democratic areas around Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. According to McCoy, Biden was winning the mail-in vote in those areas by a margin large enough to make his lead in the state insurmountable. By "Decision Desk HQ"s accounting, adding Pennsylvania to Biden's total gave Biden 273 electoral votes, three over the threshold to make him president-elect.