Democracy in the United States, 2020 and Beyond

Abstract

Developing a research agenda to support a decade-long process of electoral reform requires, first, determining how ambitious reform goals should be for a single decade. This paper proposes a moderately ambitious goal of a “state of the art” voting infrastructure, in comparison to even more ambitious possibilities, and describes some of its key features - including “war-gaming” exercises to test for vulnerabilities and a Model Code to resolve disputes over the counting of presidential ballots.

Keywords: Elections, Voting, Election Administration