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Mary McCord is a left-of-center attorney, academic, and former Obama administration Department of Justice official who directs the Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection at the Georgetown University Law Center. McCord was a federal prosecutor for 20 years before taking a senior position in the Justice Department
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Matthew Weil is an election administration policy advocate who directs the elections project at the left-of-center Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC). He first joined the BPC in 2013 and had previously worked for the Treasury Department, the U.S. Election Assistance Commission, and the center-right American Enterprise Institute.
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Lawrence Norden is a left-of-center election policy advocate and attorney who works as the senior director of elections and government policy at the Brennan Center for Justice. Norden has been a longtime commenter on election administration policy and campaign finance and is particularly well known for his research on
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Elizabeth (Liza) Goitein is an attorney and public policy professional who currently directs the Liberty and National Security Policy portfolio at the Brennan Center for Justice, a left-of-center advocacy group and public interest legal center located at New York University. Much of Goitein’s professional work centers around the analysis
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Dipayan Ghosh is a left-leaning technology policy advisor and computer scientist who currently is a fellow and co-director of the Platform Accountability Project at the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics, and Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. He previously was a White House technology policy advisor
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TED Foundation Inc. (commonly known as TED or TED Conferences) hosts speeches and discussions on a wide array of topics. It is best known for its “TED Talks,” speeches of no more than 18 minutes given by prominent scientists, businesspeople, artists, and others which have been viewed billions of times
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The Audacious Project is a project of the TED Foundation which funds organizations intended to catalyze positive large-scale social impacts. Many of the groups it funds have left-of-center policy goals, particularly related to environmentalism and social justice. From its founding in 2018 to 2020, the Audacious Project spent almost $2
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ElectionMail.org is a website that collects reports of alleged problems affecting absentee and mail-in ballots during elections. The website also aims to be a resource for state and local election administrators, providing guidance on how to recognize issues with election mail. The website forwards the reports and data it collects
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Ballot Scout is a service that allows absentee or mail-in voters to track their ballot’s progress through the postal service and see whether it reached an election office. According to its website, Ballot Scout was developed with input from election officers and in partnership with the United States Postal Service
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For more information on the 2020 election, see Center for Technology & Civic Life (Nonprofit) The U.S. Alliance for Election Excellence is a coalition of left-of-center election reform nonprofits created in 2022 as an initiative of the Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL) to bolster election security
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The Elections Group is a consulting organization that works with election offices and other local, state, and federal entities. 1 It was founded in 2020 by former election officials Jennifer Morrell and Noah Praetz to
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The Thomas More Society is a right-leaning public interest legal organization that has been involved in litigation over abortion, religious liberty and the outcome of the 2020 presidential election. 1 The organization was established
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Jocelyn Benson is a Democratic politician serving as Secretary of State of Michigan as of 2021. Benson was elected in 2018 to a four-year term and oversaw the controversial 2020 election in Michigan. Prior to the election, Secretary Benson announced that the state would mail ballots to all registered voters,
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The Healthy Voting Project is a project of the left-of-center New Venture Fund in association with the American Public Health Association, Center for Civic Design, Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL), National Association of County and City Health Officials, and We Can Vote. It
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We Can Vote is a left-of-center project of the New Venture Fund (NVF), a Washington, D.C.-based left-of-center pass-through funding and fiscal sponsorship nonprofit managed by Arabella Advisors, a consulting firm that controls a multi-billion-dollar “dark money” network which supports left-of-center causes.
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The Election Infrastructure Initiative is a joint project of the Center for Technology and Civic Life (CTCL) and Center for Secure and Modern Elections (CSME), part of a multi-billion-dollar “dark money” network run by the consultancy Arabella Advisors in Washington, DC and a front for the
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The United States Election Assistance Commission (EAC) is an independent federal agency created to report on election administration procedures and provide resources to election officials. 1 The Commission was established under the Help America Vote
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Amber McReynolds is a left-of-center vote-by-mail advocate and member of the United States Postal Service board of governors, appointed in 2021 by President Joe Biden as an “independent,” a legal designation that observers dispute.
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Tiana Epps-Johnson is the founder and executive director of Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL), an electoral advocacy organization which received $250 million from Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan in 2020.
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Donny Bridges is a co-founder and director of the civic data department at the Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL), a Chicago-based election advocacy group which pushes for left-of-center voting policies and election administration.
