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Election videos improved trust in a US survey experiment
Researchers found that short explanations of election safeguards increased respondents’ confidence in voting procedures across party lines.
UC Riverside’s 15 September report describes survey experiments involving nearly 15,000 people. Videos about another state’s election procedures raised trust by around 10–12.5 percentage points on average. The findings concern the people and messages studied; they do not establish that any particular election result is correct.
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