Department: Political Science
Electoral reforms to increase voter turnout: We are currently seeing widespread efforts in some states to restrict access to the ballot, alongside renewed efforts in other states to expand ballot access and strengthen voting rights nationwide. There are a range of potential electoral reforms to increase voter turnout, all of which involve tradeoffs and differential outcomes. Professor Bonica aims to help pro-democracy reformers and voting rights activists identify the most effective reforms to push forward by providing easily interpretable, versatile, and on-demand data about how changes to elections laws would likely affect voters in their state.