Stanford-MIT Healthy Elections Project
To address the unprecedented and ongoing threat that the COVID-19 pandemic posed to the 2020 elections, the Stanford-MIT Project on a Healthy Election brought together academics and election administration experts to assess and promote best practices to ensure the election could proceed with integrity, safety, and equal access.
While the project was time-bound to the 2020 election, we maintain an archive of all reports, tools, data, and other content generated under the Healthy Elections banner. That information can be found at the link below:
The Healthy Elections Project was led by:
- Professor Nathaniel Persily, 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.
The project also worked with and helped to coordinate a network of academics, civic organizations, election administrators, and election administration experts. These collaborators included the following organizations, among many others:
- Bipartisan Policy Center
- Center for Election Innovation and Research
- Center for Inclusive Democracy
- Center for Technology and Civic Life
- Democracy Works
- The Elections Group, LLC
- University of Rhode Island Voter Operations and Election Systems (URI VOTES)