Ballots and Battlegrounds | Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy
Type: Public event
Series: Election issues

Ballots and Battlegrounds

Ensuring Election Safeguards

Speaker

Jocelyn Benson, Karen Brinson Bell, Lisa M. Marra, Al Schmidt, Gabriel Sterling, Meagan Wolfe

Date & time

Sep 19, 2024, 6:00 pm EDT

Location

Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library
1000 Beal Ave. Ann Arbor, MI 48109

State and County election officials from six battleground states will convene at the Ford Presidential Library (Ann Arbor) for a first-of-its-kind forum on safeguards in the election process. This will be the one opportunity in this historic election year to learn directly from election officials as they gather together. 

Secretaries, chief election officials and county leaders will go through each stage of the election process and describe in detail the systems’ safeguards. 

There will be opportunities for the public to ask questions they have about the election process.

Speakers include:

Jocelyn Benson, Secretary of State, Michigan

Karen Brinson Bell, Executive Director, North Carolina State Board of Elections

Lisa M. Marra, State Election Director, Arizona

Al Schmidt, Secretary of the Commonwealth, Pennsylvania

Gabriel Sterling, Chief Operating Officer, Secretary of State, Georgia

Meagan Wolfe, Administrator and Chief Election Official, Wisconsin