Despite the 2020 election achieving the highest turnout in recent American history and being generally secure, only 47 percent of Americans say they have “a great deal” or “quite a bit” of confidence that the results of next week’s midterm elections will be counted accurately. Over the last two years, that sour outlook has bled into what usually is a banal political process: state legislatures making election law changes.
Experiments in Democracy
Most states have tweaked their election laws in the last two years. But assessing how those changes will affect this year’s midterms is hard to do.

Citizens vote early in Atlanta on October 22. (Photo by Nathan Posner/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
Citizens vote early in Atlanta on October 22. (Photo by Nathan Posner/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)



