Six Panels to Cover the Election Process

In recent years, the process for securing elections has been called into question. So how do elections really work? What systems are in place to ensure open, fair voting for all?

Join us as we examine the inner workings of the election process as well as expectations for staff conduct around elections.

This series is brought to us 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 collectively support the key cornerstones of a sustainable and vigorous democracy.

The tenets of these programs are essential to maintaining a credible democratic process. 

Faculty Expert

Susan D. Page

Professor of Practice in International Diplomacy at the University of Michigan's Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, and Professor from Practice at the University of Michigan's Law School. Director; Weiser Diplomacy Center

Page applies her vast foreign policy experience to the Weiser Diplomacy Center. She has served the U.S. Department of State, the U.S. Agency for International Development, the United Nations, and non-governmental organizations in senior roles for decades, across East, Central, and Southern Africa, and in Haiti and Nepal. Page was the first U.S. ambassador to the Republic of South Sudan and served as Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations in Haiti.

• Conversations Across Differences
• Year of Democracy, Civic Empowerment, and Global Engagement
• Carter Center
• Gerald R. Ford Presidential Foundation
• More Perfect
• Mike Ford
• Jason Carter
• Resilient Democracies
• Ambassador Susan D. Page
• Susan Page
• 2024 elections
• Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library