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KRQE
Observe New Mexico Elections co-lead Carmen López and Sarah Cooper, Democracy Program associate director, discussed election integrity with New Mexico’s news station KRQE. ONME is a statewide nonpartisan election observation effort increasing transparency and trust in New Mexico’s election. Ahead of the general election, the Center is supporting nonpartisan election observation in three states, New Mexico, Montana, and Georgia, to provide impartial analysis on the quality of the election process.
GPB
Participants at the most recent collaboration between Â鶹´«Ã½É«ÇéƬ and Baker Institute examined key issues affecting U.S. elections and possible ways to help strengthen elections and build confidence in their outcomes.
Houston Chronicle
A growing number of Americans are concerned about the legitimacy of election results, and it’s partly due to the hyper-partisanship in politics nowadays.
The Associated Press
As an independent, Christian Miller can’t vote in Pennsylvania’s closed presidential primary in April. He said it wouldn’t matter even if he could.
Â鶹´«Ã½É«ÇéƬ and Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy have come together once again to propose bipartisan guiding principles for election administration intended to assist the election community.
The Associated Press
The report by Â鶹´«Ã½É«ÇéƬ and the Baker Institute for Public Policy lays out 10 principles for trying to balance equal access to the polls with ensuring the integrity of election results.
Chicago Tribune
As we look ahead this year, voters in more than 50 countries, including the United States, will go to the polls. The elections will take place during a period of global democratic backsliding and in rapidly changing social media environments characterized by new threats from generative artificial intelligence and tech platforms’ reductions in trust and safety protections. Learn more »
“We’re very concerned about the quality of democracy around the world. There’s been a number of countries where things are moving not in the right direction, including in the U.S.,†David Carroll, director of the Carter Center’s Democracy Program, which oversees election monitoring around the world, told HuffPost.
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