As we approach the 2024 general election, the team at Voting Rights Lab is dedicated to producing and sharing new materials that helps build confidence 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.
This factsheet explains the rigorous checks and balances that exist in every state and ensure that only U.S. citizens can vote in federal and statewide elections.
- Prepare Now to Wait for Election Results (October 2024)
In this analysis, Voting Rights Lab explores the three key reasons that determine the different timelines across states for counting and reporting election results.
This resource details the election administration choice points for state leaders and local election officials to consider around natural disasters and states of emergency.
In this analysis, Voting Rights Lab reviews the most significant changes to election law over the last four years in the states that are likely to determine the outcome of the 2024 presidential election.
- Election Watch 2024: Changes to In-Person Voting since 2020 (September 2024)
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.
- The Shapeshifting Threat of Election Interference (April 2024)
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.
- The Truth about False Claims of Noncitizen Voting (March 2024)
This analysis sets the record straight on noncitizens voting in federal elections, a subject area ripe with disinformation.
- Ballot Hand Counts Lead to Inaccuracy (February 2024)
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.