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Rhode IslandPaper + scan
Hand-marked paper ballots tabulated by optical scanners; administered by the Department of State and the State Board of Elections with local boards of canvassers. Early in-person voting and no-excuse mail ballots are available. Campaign finance is in-title (R.I. Gen. Laws ch. 17-25) under the Board of Elections. Foundational law: Rhode Island General Laws Title 17 (Elections). Source: open-source RI General Laws (UniCourt cic-code-ri).
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Methodology Radar
Dimension Breakdown
EAdI14.7%
Election Administration Index
Accountability0%
Commission30%
Funding0%
Staff Training33%
Vendor Oversight0%
EAI55.4%
Electoral Access Index
Administration0%
Eligibility80%
Identification60%
Registration43%
Roll Integrity0%
Voter Assistance100%
Voting Methods42%
ECI63.9%
Election Campaign-Finance Index
Contributions100%
Disclosure100%
Enforcement50%
Foreign Source0%
Traceability75%
EDRI45.5%
Election Dispute Resolution Index
Contest20%
Recount88%
Timing25%
EVCI58.3%
Election Voter-Confidence Index
Ballot Info75%
Candidate50%
Notification50%
EII24.5%
Election Integrity Index
Citizen Verifiability0%
Custody Hardware38%
Post Election Audit67%
Software Verifiability0%
Transparency Observation13%
Vendor Independence0%
Voter Access43%
Primary Instruments
| Citation | Type | Title | Sections | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rhode Island General Laws, Title 17 (Elections) | Code | Rhode Island General Laws, Title 17 (Elections) | 507 | active |
Methodologies — Datapoint Drill-In
Each methodology card above takes you to Rhode Island's scoring detail for that methodology — every datapoint, with rationale and the exact statute that justifies the score.
For a single datapoint side-by-side across every jurisdiction, see e.g. /atlas/datapoint/1.1.