Four years after the very contentious 2020 presidential election, election officials faced another cycle with significant challenges. In many instances, local officials had to adjust to considerable changes to state and federal election law, and potential violence on Election Day was front of mind, given the assassination attempt on Donald Trump as well as some incidents in the early-vote period. Meanwhile, election-related disinformation flooded the information ecosystem. Even given all of these challenges, and the high political stakes for the future direction of the country, election officials at all levels rose to the occasion and conducted a technically smooth election with only minor scattered issues, allowing for the voices of more than 150 million Americans to be heard.
The mission of protecting free and fair elections transcends party and ideology.
Free and fair elections are the cornerstone of our democracy. The National Task Force on Election Crises is a cross-partisan collection of more than 50 experts dedicated to ensuring free and fair elections by recommending responses to a range of potential election crises. The only electoral outcome this group advocates is that elections are free and fair.
