Since Nov. 8, 2016, Americans have been debating the integrity of President Trump’s election. But whether or not Russia illicitly influenced the voting, a newly released report from the Elections Performance Index shows that actual election administration improved from 2012 to 2016.
It usually doesn’t make the news when bureaucratic structures — like the ones that enable efficient access to the polls — function as they should. But this news is important. The near-constitutional crisis of 2000 revolved around routine issues of election administration — which ballots to include in the count and how to interpret ambiguous voter marks.
Let’s examine what we measured — and how we did it. CONT.
Charles Stewart III (MIT), Monkey Cage