In a presidential election year like 2024, it’s natural that the concerns of voters and state legislators should turn to the security of their elections. And turn they did.
Where legislators and voters set to work on elections, they generally improved the integrity of the procedures we use to choose our representatives.
Since 2021, The Heritage Foundation has been tracking the laws of every state (and the District of Columbia) governing the conduct of elections—local, state, and federal—and ranking them in its Election Integrity Scorecard: 2024 saw 11 states improve their total election-integrity scores: Arkansas, Connecticut, Idaho, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Nevada, New Hampshire, Ohio, West Virginia, and Wisconsin.
Meanwhile, only two states, Arizona and Nebraska, and the District of Columbia saw their scores decline.
Among the year’s more…
