Election Science Office Hours with Prof. Alvarez

In order to better learn about how election officials and stakeholders are working to protect elections in 2024, we have been talking directly with election officials, election technologists, and other researchers. How have they worked to improve accessibility and security of the election process in this election cycle? What are they concerned about? Are they encountering election disinformation and how do they promote the facts about elections in America? We’ve called these conversations “Office Hours,” with Professor Alvarez talking directly with election officials and stakeholders. These episodes of “Office Hours” will continue until January 20, 2025 and we are making the recordings available on YouTube and on Spotify as a podcast.

We’ll be adding new episodes of Election Science Office Hours as the post-election environment develops.

Upcoming episodes include:

• May 21, 2025 - Election Science Office Hours with Gretchen Macht, Associate Professor at the University of Rhode Island and Executive Director of the Engineering for Democracy Institute

The video recordings of past Election Science Office Hours episodes are available, unedited, on YouTube:

• April 17, 2025 - Election Science Office Hours with Justin Levitt, LMU Loyola Law School

• March 12, 2025 - Election Science Office Hours with Paul Gronke and Paul Manson, Researchers from the Elections & Voting Information Center (EVIC)

• December 18, 2024 - Election Science Office Hours with Jennifer Morrell, CEO and Co-Founder of The Elections Group

• December 11, 2024 - Election Science Office Hours with Tommy Gong, Deputy County Clerk-Recorder for Contra Costa County

• November 20, 2024 - Election Science Office Hours with Christian Grose, Professor of Political Science and Public Policy, USC and Andrew Sinclair, Assistant Professor of Government, Claremont McKenna College

• November 6, 2024 - Election Science Office Hours with Charles Stewart III, MIT: Post-election recap!

• November 4, 2024 - How We Do Election Observation

• October 29, 2024 - Election Science Office Hours with Deal Logan, Registrar-Recorder, County Clerk, Los Angeles County

• October 4, 2024 - Election Roundtable, with Lisa Bryant, Christian Grose, Dean Logan, Efren Perez and Sara Sadhwani

• October 3, 2024 - Election Science Office Hours with Election Technology Provider Representatives

• September 30, 2024 - Election Science Office Hours with Bob Page, Registrar of Voters for Orange County, California

• September 24, 2024 - Election Science Office Hours with Barb Byrum, Ingham County Clerk, Michigan

• September 6, 2024 - Election Science Office Hours with Natalie Adona, Clerk-Recorder/Registrar of Voters for the County of Nevada, CA

• August 28, 2024 - Election Science Office Hours with Neal Kelley, retired Orange Country, CA Registrar of Voters

  The Election Science Office Hours podcast has dropped! Sixteen episodes available now on Spotify and Apple Podcasts!