Research & Analysis

The Road to Fair Pay

Why fair pay for congressional staffers matters for representative democracy...

The High Cost of High Turnover

When local election officials leave their positions in record numbers, the costs to institutional knowledge and running elections are significant...

Who Profited from Election Deniers?

As election-denying secretary of state candidates raised large sums in 2022, political consultants behind the scenes were raking in the dough....

Fair Pay

Why Congress Needs to Invest in Junior Staff...

Issue One Survey Reveals Key Insights into Americans’ Attitudes on Elections and Election Workers

8 Creative Ways New Poll Workers Are Being Recruited in 2024

Innovations to Attract and Keep New Poll Workers ...

As KOSA Prepares for the Senate Floor, Big Tech Lobbying Operations Hold Steadfast

ByteDance, Meta, and other companies expanded their influence on Capitol Hill during the first half of 2024...

Federal Funding for American Elections

An Analysis of HAVA Grants, 2018-2024...

Roll Call: Nearly 8 percent of Senate aides make less than a living wage, report finds

Issue One's "The Road to Fair Pay" report cited...

Politico: PhRMA gave big to dark money groups boosting drug pricing critics

Cites Issue One analysis of PhRMA's contributions to a dark money group...

Roll Call: Shutdowns of the past were ‘emotional,’ ‘terrible’ for Hill staffers

Cites Issue One's "Fair Pay" report...

NPR: In some states, more than half of the local election officials have left since 2020

Exclusive about Issue One's new report, "The High Cost of High Turnover"...