Hoover Institution
06/26/2024 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 06/26/2024 05:33
Evidence vs. Hyperbole: The Relationship between Election Laws and the Health of Democracy
There is extraordinary variation in the laws that govern how citizens vote in US elections. In most areas of election policy, states are given wide latitude around districts, procedures, requirements, and ballot counting. This paper summarizes recent trends in voting policies and the authors' research on the effects of voting laws on partisan election outcomes.
About the Authors
Justin Grimmer is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and the Morris M. Doyle Centennial Professor of Public Policy in the Department of Political Science at Stanford University. His research develops and applies new statistical methods to study political representation. He is the author, most recently, of Text as Data: ANew Framework for Machine Learning and the Social Sciences.
Eitan Hersh is a professor of political science at Tufts University. His research focuses on US elections and civic participation. He is the author of Politics Is for Power and Hacking the Electorate. He regularly testifies in voting rights court cases.