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.
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.
Today Resilient Elections is joined by Ericka Haas and Steve Trout to continue their discussions on academic and administrative partnerships.
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.
Today Resilient Elections, a collaboration addressing questions of election management, talks with Professor Lonna Atkeson of the University of New Mexico.
EVIC is happy to announce the launch of Resilient Elections, a video series addressing questions of elections management in increasingly uncertain times. The project is framed by the central question “How can scholars and community leaders work together to form an election system that centers equity and will endure an ever-dynamic America?”
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EVIC STANDS WITH BLACK AMERICANS
In light of recent unconscionable acts of police brutality, EVIC stands in solidarity with Black Americans.
We further affirm their right to equal access to the ballot. Responding to a history of voter suppression and disenfranchisement, we believe that a free, fair, and secure election system; community outreach; and ongoing research is necessary to ensure equity in the voting process.
We are using these recent events to learn, reflect, and reexamine our beliefs and values to ensure that we are foregrounding justice in our election administration work. Together, we can encourage an election system that supports racial equity and anti-racism.
Emergent research relating partisanship, perceptions of election legitimacy, and Automatic Voter Registration (AVR) from Prof. Paul Gronke, Christopher B. Mann, and Natalie Adona.
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