Results that Matter: Building Trust in Elections

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MEDSL’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.
• Complementing and drawing upon our other efforts to catalogue and disseminate information about scientifically verified actions election officials can take to ensure the best direct experience for voters.
• 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.