Recent Voting Rights Lab Research & Policy Resources for our Trusted Partners

by Megan Bellamy

September 26, 2024

As we approach the 2024 general election, the team at Voting Rights Lab is dedicated to producing and sharing new materials that helps build trust in our election systems, inoculates against disinformation, and educates the public, media, and key decision makers about how our elections work. 

Below are a few recent resources Voting Rights Lab has produced that may be helpful to you in your work. Additionally, we continue to maintain the State Voting Rights Tracker, which documents current election-related law and election-related state legislation introduced since 2021 across all 50 states and Washington, DC. 

Importantly, this is nonpartisan educational research for 501(c)(3)-compliant purposes only. It is not to be used for any partisan, political, or electioneering activities by any organization. Please feel free to reach out to our team if you have any questions about these products. 

Voting Rights Lab experts identified five major trends that will impact the in-person voting experience, whether voters are casting their ballots on or before Election Day.

In this explainer, Voting Rights Lab takes a look at the ballot counting process and why some states report election results faster than others.

Voting Rights Lab analyzes how new election laws and trends in voting legislation could shape the 2024 election in this explainer.

This policy analysis is an overview of ballot verification – the systems of checks and balances undertaken by election officials in each state to ensure all ballots are legitimate and counted accurately. 

In this policy analysis, Voting Rights Lab takes a look at the election certification process, a non-discretionary, ministerial act where winners are simply declared after the verification, counting, and canvassing processes.

This analysis focuses on states taking different approaches to voter registration list maintenance and the fallout from some state programs that purge eligible voters.

This research report focuses on the trends since 2020 in state legislation that interfere with nonpartisan election administration, and what is at stake in the 2024 election. 

In this explainer, the team at Voting Rights Lab examines how state lawmakers are responding to the emerging threats to our elections of AI-generated disinformation and deepfakes.

This analysis sets the record straight on noncitizens voting in federal elections, a subject area ripe with disinformation.

This analysis focuses on the growing movement to force local election officials to hand count ballots, and the problems – including inaccuracy – that stem from counting ballots by hand.

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