Stanford-MIT Project on a Healthy Election

To address the unprecedented and ongoing threat that the COVID-19 pandemic poses to the 2020 elections, the Stanford-MIT Project on a Healthy Election will bring academics and election administration experts together to assess and promote best practices to ensure the election can proceed with integrity, safety, and equal access.

Nathaniel Persily, the James B. McClatchy Professor Law at Stanford and former Senior Research Director of the Presidential Commission on Election Administration; and Charles Stewart III, Kenan Sahin Distinguished Professor of Political Science at MIT, Director of the MIT Election Data and Science Lab, and Co-Director of the Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project; direct the new Stanford-MIT initiative.