The Rice Center for Voting is currently engaged in voting research in a number of important areas:
- The usability of ranked choice ballots in both electronic and paper form
- The usability of UOCAVA voting systems for overseas and military voters
- The human factors of hand counting ballots
- Understanding the ability of voters to examine their paper ballots for errors
- Measuring voters’ trust in a wide selection voting systems
- Methods for restoring voter confidence in the conduct and outcome of elections
- Recruitment and retention of poll workers for the conduct of elections
- Election operations
- How to measure and assess the turnout effects of election laws
- Designing ballots to reduce the undervote