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** TOMORROW! How Do We Keep Partisan Politics Out of Election Administration? ([link removed])
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Following Election Day, election administration officials use a variety of procedures, like reviews and audits, for counting ballots and certifying the outcome of elections. These procedures are designed to ensure that election outcomes are fair and accurate. The work of election administration officials helps to ensure and promote confidence in our election system. Efforts to undermine these processes are a threat to democracy and every voter’s right to free and fair elections.

Tomorrow, December 13 at 12:00 p.m. Eastern/9:00 a.m. Pacific, join us for How Do We Keep Partisan Politics Out of Election Administration?
This virtual event will feature a special introduction by CLC's president and founder Trevor Potter and a panel of policy experts and election administration officials, including CLC voting rights legal counsel Caleb Jackson (who will serve as moderator) and voting rights senior legal counsel Jonathan Diaz, as well as Tammy Patrick, senior advisor to the Elections program at the Democracy Fund, and Peg Perl, director of elections for Arapahoe County, Colorado.

Together, we will discuss how legal, policy and administrative solutions can be used to continue to improve election administrative processes...and leave partisan politics out. Join us for this important conversation tomorrow.

Date: Monday, December 13, 2021
Time: 12:00 p.m. Eastern/9:00 a.m. Pacific

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Meet the Speakers

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Jonathan Diaz joined CLC as an attorney on the voting rights team in 2018. He has served as counsel for plaintiffs in numerous cases, including Jones v. DeSantis, challenging Florida’s practice of denying voting rights restoration to citizens with past felony convictions who have outstanding legal debt they can’t afford to pay, and Fair Fight Action v. Raffensperger, challenging a number of deficiencies in Georgia’s electoral system that burden voters—particularly voters of color. Jonathan also advocates for laws and policies to improve ballot access and create a democracy that works for all Americans, and he represents CLC in voting rights and democracy reform coalitions.
Follow Jonathan on Twitter at @JMDiazJD. ([link removed])

Caleb Jackson is an attorney on CLC's voting rights team. Before CLC, he worked at Murphy Anderson PLLC, a plaintiff-side labor and employment firm in D.C. Caleb graduated from UCLA Law with a specialization in Critical Race Studies in May 2018. While in law school, he interned at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund in New York, served as co-editor-in-chief of the National Black Law Journal, and as co-president of UCLA's Black Law Students Association chapter. Caleb graduated summa cum laude from Hampton University with a degree in broadcast journalism.
Follow Caleb on Twitter at @calebjacksonesq. ([link removed])

Trevor Potter is the founder and president of Campaign Legal Center. He is a former chairman of the Federal Election Commission, and was general counsel to John McCain’s 2000 and 2008 presidential campaigns, and an adviser to the drafters of the McCain-Feingold law. To many, he is perhaps best known for his recurring appearances on The Colbert Report as the lawyer for Stephen Colbert’s super PAC, Americans for a Better Tomorrow, Tomorrow, during the 2012 election, a program that won a Peabody Award for excellence in reporting on money in politics. He has served as chair of several American Bar Association election law and lobbying regulation committees and task forces and is currently a member of the ABA's Standing Committee on Election Law as well as the American Law Institute.
Follow Trevor on Twitter at @thetrevorpotter. ([link removed])

Tammy Patrick is a senior advisor to the Elections program at the Democracy Fund. Focusing on modern elections, she joined the Democracy Fund in 2017 to help lead the effort to foster a voter-centric elections system and work to provide election officials across the country with the tools and knowledge they need to best serve their voters. In 2013, she was selected by President Obama to serve as a commissioner on the Presidential Commission on Election Administration (PCEA) which led to a position at the Bipartisan Policy Center to further the work of the commission. Prior to that she was the federal compliance officer for Maricopa County Elections Department for 11 years where she established herself as a collaborative partner for those seeking to improve the American voting experience, testifying in more than a dozen state legislatures as well as in both the House of Representatives and the United States Senate.
Follow Tammy on Twitter at @aztammyp. ([link removed])

Peg Perl is the director of elections for Arapahoe County, Colorado. She came to this position with almost 20 years of experience in election administration and voting rights, money in politics, government ethics and open records at the national, state and local level. Peg helped design and enact Colorado’s modern voting laws plus many state and city campaign disclosure reforms while serving as senior counsel for the nonpartisan Colorado Ethics Watch and principal of her own policy and democracy education firm working with government and nonprofit clients. Prior to moving to Denver in 2010, she held public service positions as nonpartisan counsel to the U.S. House of Representatives Ethics Committee and as a policy attorney with the Federal Election Commission.
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