Evidence vs. Hyperbole: The Relationship between Election Laws and the Health of Democracy

Justin Grimmer is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and the Morris M. Doyle Centennial Professor of Public Policy in the Department of Political Science at Stanford University. His research develops and applies new statistical methods to study political representation. He is the author, most recently, of Text as Data: A New Framework for Machine Learning and the Social Sciences.

Eitan Hersh is a professor of political science at Tufts University. His research focuses on US elections and civic participation. He is the author of Politics Is for Power and Hacking the Electorate. He regularly testifies in voting rights court cases.