The Election Science Office Hours Podcast

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...

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 Scien...

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 fa...

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 prepa...

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...

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.