How Partisan Is Local Election Administration?

• In Event: Racial and Partisan Polarization in Local Elections

Brief Overview

Do partisan local election officials give their party an edge? Using a new dataset of nearly 4,400 clerk elections and a close-election regression discontinuity design, we find that officials do not meaningfully advantage their party.

Authors

• Joshua M Ferrer, University of California-Los Angeles

• Igor Geyn, University of California-Los Angeles

• Daniel Thompson, University of California-Los Angeles