Resources

This report provides guidance to election officials to communicate about the work they are doing related to voter list maintenance.

This academic paper revisits public attitudes about voter identification and voter fraud in a period of intensifying partisan polarization. It is relevant because beliefs about fraud and exposure to misleading claims are central mechanisms through which confidence in election outcomes rises or falls.

This analysis suggests that documentary proof of citizenship requirements would affect voters across the electorate. While Democrats and Republicans possess some form of documentary proof at similar rates, Republicans’ reliance on birth certificates mean they may be more heavily impacted by documentary proof requirements than Democrats. Additionally, wealthier and more highly educated voters are more likely to have documentary proof than others.

This study characterizes how confidence in the accuracy of national elections changed with the projected election of President Trump on Election Day.

Paper sharing the results of three studies exploring the effectiveness of earned and paid media, federal vs state elected officials, and videos vs static images to convey trusted election information.

The resources below are designed to help election officials manage the process of registering voters and creating, updating, and maintaining voter records.

This research focuses on the results of novel survey experiments that expose respondents in one state to messages produced by election officials in another state. Republicans, Democrats, and Independents all become more trusting once they are exposed to information about other states’ election protections.

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

This academic paper examines the administrative practices, official communications, or legal steps that help voters understand and trust election outcomes. It is relevant because trusted, timely, and nonpartisan communication is one of the main tools election officials and civic groups use to counter distrust. For this dataset, it helps capture the most recent post-2020 trust environment and the continuing effects of election denial, security concerns, and polarization.

Three experiments about election official messaging are summarized, which:(a) compare the impact of messages conveyed through earned versus paid media; (b) ask whether Americans are more responsive to messages from federal or from state election officials; (c) explore the impact of videos and static visuals.

Study investigating how to counter misinformation about voting and election fraud using a comparitive study between the United States and Brazil.

CEIR has surveyed states about voter registration database security every two years since 2018. These surveys have demonstrated widespread best practices in respondent states.