MIT reports a decade’s progress in election admin across US

On this episode: The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) just released its biennial update of the Elections Performance Index (E.P.I.) for 2022, and it brought exciting news about the state of American elections: Over the past decade, the EPI has charted the steady improvement of virtually every state in how elections are administered. 

Professor Charles Stewart–director of the MIT Election Data and Science Lab, which publishes the E.P.I.–joins On the Ballot to break down the report, shed light on the states who improved the most in the past decade and those who still have room to grow, and, to lay out what this all means for the public perception of election administration.

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Check out the E.P.I.’s latest report: https://elections-blog.mit.edu/articles/elections-performance-index-charts-decades-progress-election-administration 

Learn more about Professor Stewart’s work: https://polisci.mit.edu/people/charles-stewart-iii 

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