Charles Franklin is the founder of PollsAndVotes.com, a site devoted to non-partisan analysis of the details of polling and election outcomes, mostly in the United States. In 2005 he created the site PoliticalArithmetik and in 2006 became co-developer of Pollster.com. Pollster had a good run and was bought in 2010 by HuffingtonPost.

Charles is past president and an elected Fellow of the Society for Political Methodology.