Caroline Tolbert is a Distinguished University Professor of Political Science at the University of Iowa where she teaches graduate seminars in research methods and American politics and undergrad courses in public policy, social media and politics, and voting and elections. She was named a 2021 Andrew Carnegie Scholar/Fellow for her research on voting and state election laws. She is the coauthor of "Accessible Elections: How State Governments Can Help Americans Vote" (2020) and "Choosing the Future: Technology and Opportunity in Communities" (2021). She is the coauthor, with Robert Boatright and Nathan Micatka, of "The Problem with Primary Voters" (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2026), from which this article is adapted.