Events

Please join the Center for Election Innovation & Research for a webinar, “Examining Recent Efforts to Undermine Future Elections.” CEIR Executive Director David Becker will discuss steps taken at the federal and state levels that appear to lay the groundwork for preemptively disrupting future elections or improperly challenging legitimate election outcomes. Those steps include President Trump’s March executive order on elections, which is now largely enjoined, and the Justice Department’s reported discussions about bringing criminal charges against election officials. David will explain how these efforts to sow distrust in elections come as the administration’s policies have targeted crucial resources for election systems.

Who volunteers to be a poll worker? How do poll workers think about their role? And how might recruiting trusted groups – like veterans and military families – improve trust in elections?

Join The Elections Group and The Center for Election Innovation and Research at 1 p.m. ET on Tuesday, July 15, for the second webinar in this summer’s Books & Ballots series, which showcases useful research for election officials from this summer’s Election Science, Reform, & Administration (ESRA) conference.

During the conversation, Professors Anita Manion, David Kimball, Matt Lamb, and Michael Hanmer will explore these questions and more as they present and discuss their recent work into the motivations and beliefs of poll workers.

This webinar is part of the Books and Ballots series, a partnership with the Center for Election Innovation and Research and Arizona State University’s Mechanics of Democracy Laboratory.