Results That Matter: Building Trust in Elections

The Yankelovich Center's Building Election Trust: Enhancing Election Official Capacities Through Researcher-Practitioner Partnerships program is aimed at equipping election officials with resources and information to build trust among the electorate and bolster trustworthy practices. 

Through this program, we aim to provide clear, empirical guidance about effective communication strategies. We're doing this by: 

• Supporting a convergent research program to address important, actionable questions about communicating with voters to build trust in the electoral process.
• Identifying best practices to answer two questions: What should election officials say to the public to bolster confidence? What media and modalities work best in communicating with the public?
• Sponsoring some of the first rigorous research into the effectiveness of strategies aimed at political elites, “local notables,” and influential high-information voters.

Partners

We are proud to join efforts with our partners in this program, including: 

The MIT Election Data Science Lab at Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University

Research 

Can election facility tours increase trust in elections?

Can informational videos increase trust in elections?

Can prebunking messages convince voters to trust delayed results?