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Want to find a time to connect with peers in your jurisdiction, your state, or across the country? Check out these events to find one right for you. Not all events listed are open to the public, some events are included to provide notice to potential speakers or those who want to connect with organizers.

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Vote Early Day

Date: October 28, 2022

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Vote Early Day is a nonpartisan movement of media companies, businesses, nonprofits, election administrators, and creatives working to ensure all Americans have the tools to vote early. This holiday is a tentpole moment for partners of all stripes to engage with voters and urge them to cast their ballots. Created in 2020, Vote Early Day has brought thousands of national and local partners together in celebration and activation to increase the number of people voting early. This collaborative, open-source model—similar to Giving Tuesday and National Voter Registration Day—ensures that millions more Americans take advantage of their options to vote early through on the ground activations, get-out-the-vote pushes, national communications on traditional and social media, and efforts to create a new culture around voting.Vote Early Day plays a unique role in the push to get voters to cast their ballot. We are a trusted, nonpartisan holiday with supporters on both sides of the aisle. We provide a central moment for a wide range of partners (many non- traditional to the civic space) to engage with voters and urge them to vote early. Our collaboration of thousands of diverse partners allows us to engage in places beyond where voters are used to seeing election messages. This allows us to break through the noise and meet voters where they are.
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It’s Time to Audit: Every State, Every Election

Date: October 20, 2022

Location: Online

Category: Panel Discussion

Presented by The Heritage Foundation: While in-depth financial and accounting audits are a standard practice in the business world, they are almost nonexistent in public elections. Should all states require comprehensive audits of their voter registration, voting, and vote tabulation processes and systems? How should such audits be conducted and who should conduct them? What should auditors be reviewing and what standards should they apply to election administration? How often should audits be conducted and how many political subdivisions within a state should be audited?

On the eve of the upcoming midterm elections, this timely issue is vital to ensuring the honesty and integrity of elections. Join us for a discussion of this important topic with current and former election officials.
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Voter Accessibility: Improving your election coverage for people with disabilities

Date: October 14, 2022

Location: Online

Category: Panel Discussion

Midterm elections are Nov. 8. Are you prepared to be a watchdog for disabled voters in your communities? What is your newsroom doing to ensure your election coverage is useful and accessible for disabled voters? How are you covering voter rights and accessibility leading up to and on Election Day?

More than 61 million Americans live with disabilities, yet they remain underrepresented in journalism produced by U.S. newsrooms. As a decisive midterm election approaches, recent coverage shows state and local measures intend to: reduce voting by absentee ballot, limit access at polling locations, and limit information explaining how people with disabilities can cast their ballots.

On Friday, Oct. 14 at 11:30 ET, join the National Press Club Journalism Institute for a virtual discussion among experts in voter access, disability representation, and accessible news coverage on best practices to cover disabled voters and to highlight voting access issues they may face. Registration for this program is open; it will take place on Zoom.

Panelists include:

Thomas Hicks, Chairman of the United States Election Assistance Commission
Jessica Huseman, Editorial director for VoteBeat
Hannah Wise, Central Region Audience Development Editor for McClatchy and creator of Disability Matters, a toolkit to help newsrooms to better serve the disability community

Wendy Lu, senior staff editor on the Flexible Editing desk at The New York Times, will moderate the discussion. Lu is also a global speaker on disability representation in the media.

We hope you’ll join us for this important conversation, supported with funding from the Gannett Foundation. Please email Beth Francesco, deputy executive director for the Institute, with questions.
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To Save Democracy, Make It Worth Saving: Get More Done

Date: October 12, 2022

Location: Hybrid Event

Category: Panel Discussion

Former Vice Chair of the Federal Reserve Alice Rivlin’s posthumous book, Divided We Fall contains an urgent message to the American public: Get involved in making democracy work better or risk losing it.

Alarmed at the state of American politics and policy, Ms. Rivlin combined scholarship with personal experience to call on political leaders of both parties to break stalemates and make the compromises necessary to reach bipartisan agreements. Following her passing in 2019, Ms. Rivlin’s son and daughter-in-law, Allan and Sheri Rivlin, completed her manuscript.

Join BPC for a discussion on the state of politics and public policy, as well as the legacy of the late Alice Rivlin.

Featured Participants
Keynote:

Allan Rivlin
Co-Author, Divided We Fall; Son of Alice Rivlin

Sheri Rivlin
Co-Author, Divided We Fall; Daughter-in-Law of Alice Rivlin
Panelists:

Bob Reischauer, Ph.D.
Former Director, Congressional Budget Office; Former President, Urban Institute; Senior Fellow of Economic Studies, Brookings Institution

Bill Kristol
Editor-at-Large, The Bulwark; Former Founder and Editor-at-Large, The Weekly Standard

Isabel Sawhill, Ph.D.
Senior Fellow, Former Vice President and Director of Economic Studies, Brookings Institution; Associate Director, Office of Management and Budget

Carolyn J. Lukensmeyer, Ph.D.
Former Executive Director, National Institute of Civil Discourse

Anthony Williams
Former Mayor of Washington, DC; Board Member, BPC
Moderator:

Ruth Marcus
Associate Editor & Columnist, Washington Post
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Information Security, Minority Communities, and 2022 Election

Date: October 12, 2022

Location: Online

Category: Panel Discussion

November’s upcoming midterm elections are the first federally administered elections since 2020, which were notable for the numerous attempts to cast doubt on the legitimacy and security of the presidential election. The presidential election also highlighted the role of information security and operations in election, and how mis/dis/malinformation interacts with the US democratic process. As the US heads into election season, why should election security expand to include information security, and how does this impact minority communities within the US?

New America’s #ShareTheMicInCyber Fellowship program is pleased to invite the public for a virtual panel discussion on the role of information security and operations in election security. There will be a moderated panel discussion, followed by an audience Q&A session.

Speakers:

Hope Goins
Staff Director, House Committee on Homeland Security

Nicole Tisdale, @HiNicoleTisdale
Founder and Principal, Advocacy Blueprint

Ron Ford, @CyberNewEngland
Manager, Security Governance, Rapid7

Moderator:

Bridget Chan
Program Manager, #ShareTheMicInCyber, New America
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NPC Headliners Book Event: Major Garrett and David Becker, "The Big Truth"

Date: October 11, 2022

Location: Washington, DC

Category: Book Talk

Less than a month before the midterm elections, CBS Chief Washington Correspondent Major Garrett and David Becker, one of the nation’s leading elections experts, will discuss their new book, “The Big Truth: Upholding Democracy in the Age of THE BIG LIE,” at a National Press Club headliners book event.

Garrett and Becker’s new book examines the potentially dire consequences for the 2022 midterms and beyond. Filled with interviews with key players — election workers, January 6th Committee members Reps. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo) and Jamie Raskin (D-Md), Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, and more — they take a close look at what is known as the Big Lie. Garrett, a veteran Washington correspondent, and Becker, the Executive Director of the nonpartisan Center for Election Integrity, make a case that Big Lie “fraud” allegations evaporate under scrutiny. The authors examine what actually happened in 2020, while reporting on what they call each Trumpian misdirection designed to con and beguile Americans into chasing phantom allegations of election crimes.

The authors argue that the next midterm and presidential elections will test American democracy more severely than at any time since the Civil War, arguing that how Americans react may determine whether the country is led into another war against itself.

The program will include a question-and-answer session with Garrett and Becker.
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The Path to End-to-End (E2E) Protocols for Voting Systems

Date: October 6, 2022
to October 7, 2022

Location: Online

Category: Workshop
The U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC), in collaboration with NIST, is initiating a process to publicly solicit, evaluate, and approve protocols used in end-to-end (E2E) cryptographically verifiable voting systems for conformance to the recently revised Voluntary Voting System Guidelines, Version 2.0. This workshop will be used to discuss the plan and further develop the protocol requirements and evaluation criteria.

This workshop will cover the following:
- A keynote presentation on E2E in voting systems
- Four discussion-based panels covering:
  - Integrity and Voter Confidence
  - Voting System Security
  - Accessibility and Human Factor Considerations
  - Implementation of E2E in Voting Systems/Testings
- Next Steps
- Q&A Session
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electionline Weekly

October 6, 2022

Countdown to Election Day 2022: A Resource Guide
A round-up of resources for the coming weeks

By M. Mindy Moretti
Electionline.org

Elections officials have been bombarded with a lot in the last two years — records requests, mis/disinformation, threats, questions about the integrity of the system, etc.

They’ve also been given a lot of tools to help deal with all of it from communications to cyber and physical security to personnel issues.

Needless to say it can all be a bit overwhelming. With just over 30 days till the 2022 Midterm Election, we pulled together what we hope is a helpful resource guide for state and local elections officials. A one-stop, if you will.

Thanks to the folks at Alliance for Security Democracy, Brennan Center, Bipartisan Policy Center, Center for Election Innovation & Research, Center for Tech and Civic Life, CISA, The Elections Group, National Association for Media Literacy Education, and National Association of State Election Directors for all the work they’ve done for elections officials and for providing the resources here.

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