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Our second post-election episode, with Christian Grose (University of Southern California) and Andrew Sinclair (Claremont McKenna College). Election reforms like ranked choice voting, primary reforms, and redistricting commissions, were on the ballot in many states in the 2024 election. Many of these measures failed or struggled with voters. Why? What might these struggles portend for the future of election reform at the ballot box? How can election reformers respond? This is a great episode if you are interested in election reform. Note that there is a little feedback in the first few seconds of the audio, per our usual policy we have not edited the audio track to bring you the entire conversation, as it occurred.

Charles Stewart III from MIT joins me, on the morning after the November 5th 2024 election. We discuss his work on the CBS Decision Team, why the administration of the election went smoothly, what to expect from federal election reform, and some ideas for research coming out of the 2024 election.

Since 2000, we've developed a unique way to observe polling place and voting center operations. There are specific things we look for, and ways we go about conducting our studies of how effective in-person voting procedures and technologies operate in a state or county. Listen to this short episode to learn more!

This is an interesting in-depth conversation wth Dean Logan, LA County's Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk. We talk about his job managing elections (and lots of other interesting processes) in the nation's largest and most diverse jurisdiction. We talk about early voting, election misinformation, and how LA County has built an accessible and secure voting system that works in this diverse community. With only a week until Election Day 2024, it was an honor to have Dean join me for this wonderful conversation.

Guests in this episode are Lisa Bryant, Christian Grose, Dean Logan, Efren Perez, and Sara Sadhwani. This is a special episode of Office Hours. The Election Roundtable was recorded in-person (with an audience) on October 11 at Caltech. Prof. Mike moderated the conversation and we have a Q&A at the end with audience participants. This event was co-sponsored by the Caltech Linde Center for Science, Society, and Policy and the USC Schwarzenegger Institute for State and Global Policy.

This is a special episode of Office Hours. Here I walk through some of the recent research we have done a Caltech on election misinformation, and provide guidelines and suggestions for election officials and stakeholders about how to deal with misinformation as we enter the final period of the 2024 election. This podcast is relevant for everyone, as we will all run into friends, colleagues, and family who are convinced by some election rumor or myth. See our project website for more information:

https://www.protectingtheelection.us/blog-3-1/election-misinformation-guidelines

What is Office Hours? What's the goal of this podcast? Join me for a brief introduction to Office Hours, and learn a little about your host!

Listen to this special episode of Office Hours! In this episode we talk with three election technology providers: Ben Adida (Executive Director of VotingWorks), Sara Cutter (Executive Director of the American Council for Election Technology), and Ed Smith (Vice President, Election Solutions of the MTX Group). We talk about how the election technology industry helps election officials as they prepare for the upcoming election and their concerns about potential issues this fall. Note that as our podcast is presented unedited, there are a few places where one of our guests had some technical issues, so please be patient with our unedited podcast!

Another great episode of Office Hours! Here we talk about the challenges of running a presidential election in a large and diverse SoCal county. Bob also talks about how they secure the voting by mail process, and dealing with election disinformation in this election.

Join me for a wide-ranging conversation with Barb Byrum, the Ingham County (MI) Clerk. Barb is in the thick of the election in one of our most important battleground states. We talk about the challenges running an election in the current political environment and how she deals with election disinformation.

Join us for a conversation with Natalie Adona, Nevada County CA Recorder/Registrar of Voters.  We talk about how elections are run in Nevada County, Natalie's experiences in the 2020 presidential election, and issues that she is focusing on for 2024.  We also talk about election misconceptions, including non-citizen voting, and how election officials can try to talk about those misconceptions with voters in their jurisdictions.

During this inaugural episode, Professor Alvarez chats with retired Orange County, California Registrar of Voters Neal Kelley on his view of risks election administrators must contend with and what he sees as strategies for mitigating those risks for Election 2024.