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b'Elections have always been heated in America. But with Republican narratives around a \\u201cstolen\\u201d 2020 election, and fears that newly elected administrators will sway 2024, concern about the power of election officials is at a high. While it\'s true that some election officials are nonpartisan, in a lot of counties, local elections officials are elected by voters and they run as members of a political party. Why wouldn\'t they tilt an election in their party\'s favor?\\n \\nIt\'s a fair question on some Americans\' minds, and one that UCLA political scientist Dan Thompson sought to answer in a new paper, "How Partisan Is Local Election Administration?".\\n \\nPaper link: https://dthompson.scholar.ss.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/19/2021/12/Ferrer_et_al_Election_Admin.pdf'