Professor Paul Gronke, director of the Early Voting Information Center (EVIC) at Reed College, quipped in the New York Times:

“Everyone’s focusing on the rate of voting by mail, which is going to easily double what it was in 2016 — somewhere north of 80 million ballots…But people aren’t paying attention to what might happen if there’s a spike in the pandemic or a shortage of poll workers and there’s a last-minute reduction in in-person voting.”

Gronke’s comments on the nationwide conversation on voting amidst the COVID-19 pandemic pivots our thinking towards issues of capacity. Should Local Election Officials become unable to work due to COVID-19, already stressed election districts could experience unprecedented difficulty conducting the election.

Imaginative solutions backed by a flock of volunteers will be necessary to ensure a safe and successful election this November.

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Today Resilient Elections’ Mike Alvarez speaks with Dr. Ines Levin of the University of California, Irvine. Addressing research on Elections Forensics, Mike and Ines demonstrate the utility of robust statistics and machine learning tools in Political Science methodology.

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Today Resilient Elections is joined by Adona and Romero to discuss Automatic Voter Registration (AVR) in California. Alongside Director Paul Gronke, panelists debrief a recent study on AVR and highlight opportunities for academic-administrative partnerships in anticipation of November’s election.

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Today Resilient Elections is joined by Ericka Haas and Steve Trout to continue their discussions on academic and administrative partnerships.

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Watch Resilient Elections contributor R. Michael Alvarez’ crash course in working with Local Elections Officials. The elections data expert from Caltech goes over best practices for data gathering and analysis at the scope of local election administration. He invites investigators to conceptualize their research as a collaboration, allowing for stronger synergy across the academic-public alliance.

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