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Hosted by Professor R. Michael Alvarez, Caltech · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 36 episodes
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Let’s help voters be confident that their ballots are counted as cast. Honest conversations between host, Caltech prof and election expert Mike Alvarez, and election officials, researchers, and other stakeholders about elections.
Professor R. Michael Alvarez, Caltech hosts The Election Science Office Hours Podcast, a government show with 36 episodes published.
Kim Alexander is a true pioneer in the promotion of secure and usable voting technology and good democratic practices. This is a great conversation, covering a lot of important current topics in election integrity. One o
In this episode, I talk to Bob Page, the Orange County Registrar of Voters. Right now, Bob and his team are gearing up for the June 2026 primary election in OC, and we talk about what they are doing to prepare for the el
Join me as I talk with Natalie Adona, the Marin County Registrar of Voters, as we discuss how her office is preparing for the upcoming primary in June - and the general election in November. We also discuss misconception
Join me as I talk with Steve Trout, Director of Strategic Partnerships at Clear Ballot. We discuss his current role at Clear Ballot, focusing on the challenges and opportunities for the election technology industry. We d
This is a great episode, join me as I talk with Mike Moser about election security. We have a wide-ranging conversation, considering current election security issues, how best to help election officials with cybersecurit
Just me as I talk with Cameron Wimpy, from Arkansas State University, as we discuss the unique problems that election officials face in rural parts of the U.S. Rural election administration is an understudied problem, an
Join us for this amazing episode with Michael Spector and Delaney Gomen, both from Georgia Tech. We talk about their new paper that uses innovative HCI methods to learn from election officials about usability issues they
Join me as I talk with Betsy Sinclair about the work that we did in 2025 on AI and elections. In 2025 we organized and hosted two major conferences, bringing together researchers, election officials, election technologis
In this episode, I talk with three experts on military and overseas voting, Casandra Hockenberry, Paul Lux, and Hilary Rudy. We talk about the hurdles that military and overseas voters face when they try to received and
Join me as I talk with USC prof Christian Grose, as we go over the November 4, 2025 election results. What happened in the major races across the US on November 4th, including in New York City, New Jersey, and Virginia.
Join me as I discuss with Caltech prof Jonathan N. Katz the current round of mid-decade partisan gerrymandering. We focus attention on Texas and California, discussing in particular California's Proposition 50. We talk a
On this episode, I talk with Ben Adida, the founder of VotingWorks. Ben has done important scientific research on voting systems early in his career, and we discuss his thoughts about cyptography and elections and the ea
In this episode, Matt Masterson joins me to talk about election security and election administration. Matt is Senior Director, Elections and Societal Resilience at Microsoft; previously he was a Commissioner and Chair of
California's controversial mid-cycle redistricting proposal will be on the state's ballot on November 4th. Now that the proposed maps are out, it's time to start to dig into how they might change the state's congressiona
Here I talk with Justin Levitt about why Texas is considering redrawing their Congressional district lines now, what other states are considering in response, and what it all might mean for the 2026 midterm elections.
Earlier in July I had a chance to talk with Maggie Toulouse Oliver, New Mexico's Chief Election Officer. We talked about election administration in New Mexico, focusing on election reforms and election security. We also
In this episode, Kim Wyman and I discuss threats to election security, what was done in the 2020 election to mitigate threats and what we should be doing to prepare to mitigate new threats looking ahead to the 2026 and 2
In this episode of Election Science Office Hours I talk with Betsy Sinclair from WashU. Betsy and I chat about AI and election governance, election rumors, and a conference that we are planning for October at WashU. Bets
In this episode of Election Science Office Hours, I talk with Professor Gretchen Macht of the University of Rhode Island. She is an engineer by training, and has developed an important and unique research agenda working
In this special episode of Election Science Office Hours, I talk with Stephan Lewandowsky, prof at the University of Bristol, about his innovative research on AI microtargeting. Stephan has shown that AI can be used to d
Stephan Lewandowsky
PhD · University of Bristol
1 appearance on this show
Kim Alexander
California Voter Foundation
1 appearance on this show
Bob Page
Orange County Registrar of Voters
1 appearance on this show
Natalie Adona
Marin County
1 appearance on this show
Steve Trout
Clear Ballot
1 appearance on this show
Cameron Wimpy
Arkansas State University
1 appearance on this show
Michael Specter
Georgia Tech
1 appearance on this show
Christian Grose
University of Southern California
1 appearance on this show
Jonathan N. Katz
Caltech
1 appearance on this show
Ben Adida
VotingWorks
1 appearance on this show
Matt Masterson
Microsoft
1 appearance on this show
Maggie Toulouse Oliver
New Mexico
1 appearance on this show
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