The primary election season is about to start, and the country is just 10 months away from the general election, which will determine control of the White House, Congress, and state and local offices.

With the increased use of mail-in ballots and early voting, voters will be returning their ballots weeks, if not months, before the traditional November election day.

And since much has changed about the way Americans vote, it’s more important than ever that measures be implemented that inspire confidence in the fair and impartial administration of our elections.

To best assess and compare the laws affecting election administration, The Heritage Foundation has released a revised Election Integrity Scorecard as of January 2024 that outlines the best practices for running secure elections. (The Daily Signal is the news outlet of The Heritage Foundation.)

In 2021, The Heritage Foundation began 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.

State performance was based on 48 best-practices criteria and scored on a 100-point scale. After three years of reviewing laws and corresponding with state election officials, most of the original concerns remained evergreen, but a few new problems arose.

To keep abreast of the latest challenges affecting election integrity, we have amended one of our best practices and added two new ones.

The amendment addresses interstate agreements to share voter registration information. These agreements are indispensable to prevent voters from illegally voting in more than one state.

Since the demise of the Kansas-Missouri Interstate Crosscheck Program in 2017, the Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC) has been the only organized means for states to share voter registration information. Thus, the........

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