11 Experts Available for Timely Analysis on 2024 Election Administration
As millions of Americans cast their votes today, there are many questions about the administration of the election, voting rights, and claims of voter fraud that are likely to come up. For reporters working on stories related to election administration and processes, the following experts are available to provide commentary and analysis:
Anthony studies elections and election administration, as well as political parties and organizations in the United States. Broadly speaking, Dr. Anthony studies the systems that structure U.S. political participation and the institutions that incentivize and mobilize this participation. He also co-edited a recently published book titled Lessons Learned from the 2020 Election: Hindsight is 2020, which examines how the COVID-19 pandemic impacted the administration of U.S. elections.
Barsky specializes in election administration and election science. As a "prac-ademic," she uniquely bridges theory and practice in public administration, focusing on the critical intersection of elections, democracy, and public service. Barsky's research explores the dynamics of citizen-state interactions in the electoral process, investigating poll workers; election processes; and election law, administration, and reform.
Burden's research and teaching focus on U.S. elections, public opinion, representation, and the U.S. Congress. His recent research has centered on aspects of election administration and voter participation. He is the author of Personal Roots of Representation, co-editor of The Measure of American Elections, co-author of Why Americans Split Their Tickets, and editor of Uncertainty in American Politics.
Carey is a comparative political scientist who has specialized in transitional elections in nascent democracies during the 1990s and more recently in hybrid regimes under democratic erosion. He has expertise in election administration and has monitored elections as part of international NGOs and organizations, and in the past decade he has been a board member of Democracy Counts, an NGO focused on monitoring elections, primarily in the US, but also abroad.
Douglas researches election law and voting rights, civil procedure, constitutional law, and judicial decision making. He is the author of Vote for US: How to Take Back our Elections and Change the Future of Voting, a popular press book that provides hope and inspiration for a positive path forward on voting rights. His latest book is The Court v. The Voters: The Troubling Story of How the Supreme Court Has Undermined Voting Rights.
Gronke studies American politics, specializing in convenience and early voting, election administration, public opinion, and elections. Gronke serves as Director of the Elections & Voting Information Center (EVIC), an election science research center that he founded two decades ago. Under Gronke's leadership, EVIC has become a national center of excellence for policy research and publicly engaged scholarship into election administration, election reform, and electoral integrity.
Kimball's election research examines election administration and the impact of election laws and institutions on voters. He has worked with the Brennan Center for Justice on a series of reports promoting better designed ballots and other election materials. He has served as an expert witness in several court cases involving voting rights.
Kousser studies American state and national politics. Since 2022, he has been leading a team of scholars who are conducting research on trust in elections, working in partnership with state and local election officials around the nation.
Merivaki's research focuses on the intersection of election science, voter behavior and political communication to understand how accurate – and -false- information flows in the election information ecosystem and how trust-building communication campaigns can help build trust in the integrity of elections. She is co-director of the Election Officials Communications Tracker, a massive data collection and analysis initiative that tracks all state and local election officials’ communication efforts on social media.
Rush's research focuses on democracy; voting rights; and constitutional law around the world. Overarching themes in Rush's work address how globalization; modernization; and technological change force us to reconsider how we think about: democracy; fair elections; representation; human rights; the interaction between science and law; and liberal education and liberal democracy.
Torres-Spelliscy was counsel in the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law and an associate at Arnold & Porter. She is a graduate of Harvard and Columbia Law. She has testified before Congress as an expert on campaign finance, election law and constitutional law and has helped draft Supreme Court briefs.