Current Challenges in Election Administration

This chapter focuses on emerging issues in election administration. These issues are a combination of ideas that election administrators are talking about and concerns that those studying the field have raised. Some of the thoughts expressed in this chapter come from data collected directly from election administrators, as noted in the Preface. Most recently, we asked a group of about 100 elections administrators what they thought elections and election administration would be like as we approach a Presidential election 20 years in the future. They offered insights on balloting, registration, technology, and other election administration issues. Their responses are summarized in Table 7.1, in the order of most frequent to least frequent response.