About Us

Election Integrity in the 2024 General Election

During the summer of 2024, we launched our general election research project: The Caltech Election Integrity Project. This effort is supported by a research grant to Caltech from The John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation, by the Linde Center for Science, Society, and Policy (LCSSP) at Caltech, and by the Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project.  

This project builds on the foundation that we established through our Monitoring the Election research project. We are continuing our work to provide quantitative and qualitative research on election administration and integrity. Our research is being used by collaborating election officials to improve their election processes and administration. Additionally, it is being shared with stakeholders and the general public. Our research project is academic in focus and non-partisan and will help support voter confidence in elections.

Caltech Linde Center for Science, Society, and Policy

The Linde Center for Science, Society, and Policy (LCSSP) at Caltech was originally established in January 2023 with the support of Caltech President, Thomas Rosenbaum. The Center’s mission is to foster research and education at Caltech that is policy-relevant, to build relationships between Caltech researchers and policymakers, and to insure that science is infused into our work.

History of the Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project

The Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project (VTP) was established by former Caltech President David Baltimore and former MIT President Charles Vest in December 2000 to prevent a recurrence of the problems that threatened the 2000 U.S. Presidential Election. Since its establishment, members of the VTP have studied all aspects of the election process, both in the United States and abroad. VTP faculty, research affiliates, and students have written many working papers, published scores of academic articles and books, and worked on a great array of specific projects.

All of this research and policymaking activity seeks to develop better voting technologies, to improve election administration, and to deepen scientific research in these areas.

Since project’s inception, the VTP has received substantial financial support from the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.

Today, members of the VTP are active in:

  • Developing better voting systems standards and testing practices

  • Studying and developing novel and improved post-election auditing procedures

  • Assessing and evaluating the voting experience in federal elections

  • Examining ways to make the process of voter registration more secure and more accessible

  • Evaluating methods of voter authentication, and their effects on the election process

  • Improving voting technologies