Election Science Office Hours with Prof. Alvarez

In order to better learn about how election officials and stakeholders are working to protect elections, 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?  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 “Election Science Office Hours,” with Professor Alvarez talking directly with election officials and stakeholders.  These episodes of “Election Science Office Hours” will continue at least through the end of 2025 and we are making the recordings available on YouTube as a webinar, and on Apple Podcasts and Spotify as a podcast.

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

Upcoming episodes include:

• September 16, 2025 -  A Conversation with Microsoft's Matt Masterson to Discuss Elections, Technology, and the Current Information Environment

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

• September 3, 2025 - A Conversation with UCLA’s Natalie Masuoka on Potential Impacts of Redistricting on California’s Asian Americans

• August 13, 2025 - A Conversation with Loyola Law School's Justin Levitt: What's Behind the Push to Redraw Congressional Districts Before the 2026 Midterms?

• July 9, 2025 - A Conversation with New Mexico's Chief Election Official Maggie Toulouse Oliver on Serving the State's Voters

• June 11, 2025 - Securing Elections: A Conversation with Kim Wyman, President, ESI Consulting and Senior Fellow, Bipartisan Policy Center

• May 28, 2025 - A Conversation on AI and Governance in Elections with Betsy Sinclair, Assistant Vice Provost of Digital Transformations at WashU

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

• 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