Today Resilient Elections, a collaboration addressing questions of election management, talks with Professor Lonna Atkeson of the University of New Mexico.
Prof. Atkeson is a Political Scientist researching the nexus of local election administration and broader patterns in voting technology. Working with survey data, she employs both an empirical and theoretical approach to better understand how democracy functions at the ballot box. As the director of the Center for the Study of Voting, Elections and Democracy and the Institute of Social Research at the University of New Mexico, her applied work helps inform election policy.
As a collaboration between the Early Voting Information Center (EVIC) and the Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, Professors Paul Gronke (Reed College) and R. Michael Alvarez (Caltech) facilitate dialogue between leading election scholars, administrators, and innovators. By encouraging academic partnerships and community outreach alike, Resilient Elections ascertains how best to proceed with election administration this November and beyond. Stay tuned for upcoming conversations on forging academic-community relationships, vote-by-mail and polling in the era of COVID-19.
