Office Hours, A Conversation with Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse OIiver, Chief Election Official of the State of New Mexico

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During this episode of Office Hours, we'll talk with New Mexico Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse Oliver - the State’s Chief Election Official - about the steps that she has taken to secure the election process in New Mexico, while also improving accessibility, how they audit the vote in New Mexico, what role the Secretary of State plays in overseeing the election process in New Mexico, and what she might be concerned about in her state and throughout the country as we go into the final stretch of the 2024 election.

Maggie Toulouse OIiver is New Mexico’s 26th Secretary of State, having served the people of New Mexico in this role since first being elected in 2016.

In addition to her elected position, Secretary Toulouse Oliver is the immediate Past President of the National Association of Secretaries of State (NASS), and has previously served NASS as President, President-Elect, Treasurer, and chair of the elections committee. She serves as a board member of New Mexico’s Public Employees Retirement Association (PERA), the New Mexico Martin Luther King, Jr. Commission, and the state Commission on Records and Archives. She is currently a member of the University of Southern California Annenberg Center’s Voter Communication task force, and an advisory board member for the Election Official Legal Defense Network co-founded by national election law experts Benjamin Ginsburg and Bob Bauer. She is also a Ph.D. Student in Political Science at the University of New Mexico and is a W.K. Kellogg Foundation Community Leadership Network Fellowship alumna.

For more information on the Caltech 2024 Election Integrity Project, please visit our website at https://www.protectingtheelection.us/ or email us at electionintegrity@caltech.edu.