Resources

This bibliography curates research on voter trust, voter confidence, election legitimacy, misinformation, and election administration.

Partisan actors in the United States have recently politicized trust in election administration. This paper suggests solutions for election officials to rebuild trust in democratic processes.

Report summarizing ways election officials can use public information campaigns to restore voter trust in election administration.

This Article calls attention to the development and derailment of a novel cross-governmental bureaucracy for voter registration.

This working paper evaluates communication strategies—such as voter education, official messaging, corrections, or prebunking—that aim to increase confidence in elections.

This panel explores a new set of conservative principles to build trust in elections.

This white paper reviews literature related to trust in elections.

Academic paper examining the use of audits following elections to improve voter confidence.

This research finds that explicit cues about rigged voting machines increase belief in such theories, especially when the cues target the opposing political party. Explicit cues also decrease confidence in elections regardless of the targeted party, but they have no effect on satisfaction with democracy or support for election security funding.

This post-election survey reports on how Americans cast ballots in 2022 and how confident they were that votes were counted accurately.

This research focuses on how the timing of voter file snapshots affects the most commonly cited advantage of voter file data: accurate measures of who votes.

This research uses difference-in-differences estimates that suggest that same day voter registration disproportionately increases turnout among individuals aged 18–24 (an effect between 3.1 and 7.3 percentage points).