Voting in the 2020 election is underway, and already, election controversy is afoot. The Georgia secretary of state announced this week that 1,000 voters allegedly double voted during the state’s primary election. Lawsuits are underway across the country, pursued by both parties, either pushing to scale back the scope of distribution of mail-in ballots or to expand the grounds under which such ballots can be requested or accepted.

Though voting in the United States in recent years has gotten increasingly easy for most voters, with the expansion of vote-by-mail and early voting programs, and though the vast majority of voters in the 2018 midterms said that they found it “very easy” to cast their ballot, voters’ confidence in elections has dropped precipitously since the last presidential election. Today, fewer than half of those polled say they are confident that the results of the election will be counted accurately.