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.

Upcoming scheduled episodes of Office Hours include (more will be added as we schedule guests):

• TBD: Maggie Toulouse Oliver, New Mexico Secretary of State

• October 29, 1pm Pacific: Dean Logan, Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk

• November 6, 11am Pacific: Professor Charles Stewart III, MIT Election Lab.

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

• Office Hours with Neal Kelley, retired Orange Country, CA Registrar of Voters

• Office Hours with Natalie Adona, Clerk-Recorder/Registrar of Voters for the County of Nevada, CA

• Office Hours with Barb Byrum, Ingham County Clerk, Michigan

• Office Hours with Bob Page, Registrar of Voters for Orange County, California

• Office Hours with Election Technology Provider Representatives

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

The Office Hours podcast has dropped! Seven episodes available now on Spotify!