Resources

Article summarizing how short-form, low-budget vertical videos can be used by election officials to improve voter trust.

Article summarizing how election officials can use "prebunking" to increase voter trust and confidence through a comparative analysis of elections in the United States and Brazil.

Paper exploring how vote-by-mail ballot locator and notification systems, such as BallotTrax, can be used to improve voter trust.

In The Turnout Gap, Fraga provides a comprehensive analysis of the causes and consequences of racial and ethnic disparities in voter turnout. Examining voting for Whites, African Americans, Latinos, and Asian Americans from the 1800s to the present, Fraga documents persistent gaps in turnout and shows that elections are increasingly unrepresentative of the wishes of all Americans.

In this book, authors analyze whether systematic outcomes arise from distinctive election policies in the American states. They establish a cost of voting index to evaluate which states have a higher cost of voting, how this cost impacts who votes, and whether there is a correlation between the cost of voting and minority populations.

This white paper, prepared for the Presidential Commission on Election Administration, outlines the barriers faced by people with disabilities when attempting to register to vote and cast their ballot. It identifies the impact of these barriers on voter turnout and registration and outlines potential strategies to make voting for accessible for voters with disabilities.