Mike Ford & Jason Carter to Speak: How DO we Run Fair, Safe Elections?

Join the Ford Presidential Foundation and our partners, The Carter Center, More Perfect, and the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at University of Michigan, as we examine the inner workings of the election process as well as expectations for staff conduct around elections. This series has been developed in partnership with Principles for Trusted Elections and More Perfect's Sustainable Democracy Goals.

Co-chaired by Mike Ford (son of President Ford) and Jason Carter (grandson of President Carter), the Principles for Trusted Elections is an effort to bring awareness to the process insuring fair, safe, and secure elections. More Perfect's "Five Democracy Goals" were created to support key cornerstones of a sustainable and vigorous democracy.

Speaker bios:

Mike Ford is the oldest son of President and Mrs. Gerald R. Ford. He is the Associate Director of the Pro Humanitate Institute at Wake Forest University and serves as lay leader at First Presbyterian Church in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Currently, he serves as a Trustee of the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Foundation. 

Jason Carter is Chair of the Carter Center Board of Trustees. Carter is a former state senator from Georgia, where he served from 2010 to 2015. A 9th-generation Georgian, he is the grandson of former President Jimmy Carter and the son of Jack Carter and Judy Langford, daughter of former Georgia State Senator James Beverly Langford. He is currently a partner at the law firm of Bondurant, Mixson & Elmore in Atlanta. 

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