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Election Integrity in the 2024 General Election

We have launched our new 2024 general election research project in the summer of 2024.. The project is supported by a research grant to Caltech from The John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation, by the Caltech Linde Center for Science, Society, and Policy, and by the Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project.  

This project builds on the foundation that we have established in our Monitoring the Election research project. We will be continuing our work to provide quantitative and qualitative research on election administration and integrity. Our research will be used by collaborating election officials to improve their election processes and administration, it will be shared with the public and stakeholders, and our work will help support voter confidence in elections. Our research project is academic in focus and is non-partisan.

Caltech Linde Center for Science, Society, and Policy

The Caltech Linde Center for Science, Society, and Policy (LCSSP was originally established in January 2023 with the support of Caltech’s President, Thomas Rosenbaum. The Center’s mission is to foster research and education at Caltech that is policy-relevant, to build relationships between Caltech researchers and policymakers, and to insure that science is infused into

History of the Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project

Established by Caltech President David Baltimore and MIT President Charles Vest in December 2000 to prevent a recurrence of the problems that threatened the 2000 U.S. Presidential Election. Since establishment, members of the VTP have studied all aspects of the election process, both in the United States and abroad. VTP faculty, research affiliates, and students have written many working papers, published scores of academic articles and books, and worked on a great array of specific projects.

All of this research and policymaking activity seeks to develop better voting technologies, to improve election administration, and to deepen scientific research in these areas.

Since project inception, the VTP has received substantial financial support from the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.

Today, members of the VTP are active in:

  • Developing better voting systems standards and testing practices

  • Studying and developing novel and improved post-election auditing procedures

  • Assessing and evaluating the voting experience in federal elections

  • Examining ways to make the process of voter registration more secure and more accessible

  • Evaluating methods of voter authentication, and their effects on the election process

  • Improving voting technologies