Will elections finally be secure and honest in 2024?

Looking back on what happened in the election field in 2023 can give us a better sense of what to expect in next year’s presidential election. 

Legislators in many states improved procedures for ensuring secure and honest elections. But other states either failed to act or made things worse by failing to implement effective practices for accurately administering voter registration, the casting of votes and the tabulation and reporting of results. 

In 2021, the Heritage Foundation launched an Election Integrity Scorecard that grades the election laws and procedures of all 50 states and the District of Columbia according to 47 different best-practices criteria developed in consultation with trusted election experts.