On June 18, 2025, the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate and the Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics released a landmark report that finds local election administrators consistently lack sustained funding, adequate staffing, and necessary technology at a time of intense public scrutiny and diminished trust in voting results.
The comprehensive anthology report, “Bolstering Funding and Practices for Resilient Elections: Sustainable Funding and Models of Success at the State and Local Level,” gives election administrators and policymakers the data and research necessary to bolster voting infrastructure at the state and local levels.
Watch the virtual launch here, featuring insights and analysis from some of the researchers, practitioners, and experts who contributed to the report.
Participants included University of Kansas professor Zach Mohr, Auburn University professor Mitchell Brown, Colorado Department of State deputy elections director Hilary Rudy, Commissioners Ben Hovland and Donald Palmer of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission, Bipartisan Policy Center elections project director Rachel Orey, and American Enterprise Institute senior fellow John Fortier.
