The Process of Policy Seminar Series: Election Administration

Since at least the 2016 U.S. presidential election and during the 2020 U.S. presidential election, which was administered in the midst of the global COVID-19 pandemic, election administration has been an increasingly difficult, polarized, and even dangerous civic process that is nonetheless central to procedural democracy. Election administrators have seen their roles in the process of policymaking change drastically during this time, and this panel will explore how and when state and local election officials are included in such processes and where policy can strengthen this civic necessity in the future.