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Ballots & Battlegrounds

In 2024, Keep Our Republic launched a public forum that brought together the top election officials from Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin to brief the media – 26 different outlets, including multiple reporters from the Washington Post, Reuters and USA Today – who left with a detailed understanding of state specific safeguards and information to support accurate reporting on the election process from the professionals who run them.

Ensuring election safegaurds

Through this forum, we worked to provide a comprehensive understanding of the election safeguards that ensure the integrity and reliability of our electoral system.

What We Covered

We brought together top election officials from key battleground states to discuss the checks and balances in place at every phase of the election process. We sought to restore public confidence in our elections by offering transparent insights into how votes are counted and protected. Conversations included:

  • The role of state and local officials in safeguarding elections
  • Measures in place to protect the integrity of ballots
  • How election officials respond to challenges and threads to the electoral process
  • Public concerns about election integrity and how they are addressed

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Snippets from the Forum

Part 1: Safeguards in the Voting Process

Part 2: Voting Channels

Part 3: Vote Tabulation

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Ballots & Battlegrounds Coverage

Held at the Gerald R. Ford Library in Ann Arbor in partnership with the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Foundation and Pillars of the Community, Ballots & Battlegrounds brought together key voices in election administration to bolster public trust and ensure confidence in the 2024 electoral process.

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Town Hall

The “Ask Me Anything” Town Hall was open to the public and was similar to those that Keep Our Republic has hosted since 2023 in counties across Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Michigan.

Participating Members

Karen Brinson Bell
Executive Director – North Carolina State Board of Elections
Jocelyn Benson
Secretary of State – Michigan
Chet Harhut
Allegheny County Deputy Division Manager of Elections – Pennsylvania
Joseph Kirk
Bartow County Election Supervisor – Georgia
Lisa Posthumus Lyons
Kent County Clerk & Register of Deeds – Michigan
Lisa M. Marra
State Election Director – Arizona
Lamont McClure
Northampton County Executive – Pennsylvania
Kim Pytleski
Oconto County Clerk – Wisconsin
Brad Raffensperger
Secretary of State – Georgia
Stephen Richer
Recorder of Maricopa County – Arizona
Justin Roebuck
Ottawa County Chief Election Officer – Michigan
Al Schmidt
Secretary of the Commonwealth – Pennsylvania
Lisa Tollefson
Rock County Clerk – Wisconsin
Tim Tsujii
Forsyth County Elections Director – North Carolina
Meagan Wolfe
Administrator and Chief Election Official – Wisconsin

Ballots & Battlegrounds

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