Watch Now: Infrastructure Investments in Macoupin County, Illinois

As a Center for Election Excellence, and part of the initial cohort making up the U.S. Alliance for Election Excellence, Macoupin County received grant funding allowing them to purchase a building for a more secure and accessible space to administer elections.  “We’ll make sure every voter has a good experience, can trust that their vote’s…

The lack of physically secure, adequate, and modern space is a common infrastructure problem for election offices. The U.S. Alliance for Election Excellence is working to help address these overdue infrastructure needs.

KBIA 3.8.23 In February, High Turnout Wide Margins was invited to do a live recording at the first in-person meeting of the US Alliance for Election Excellence – a nonpartisan collaborative of election administrators and subject matter experts. Hosts Brianna Lennon and Eric Fey spoke with two election administrators that night – Jocelyn Benson, the…

The three-day conference included a series of bipartisan panel discussions on resilient and sustainable election funding, communications that can build public confidence in elections, and a panel discussion on the evolving landscape of safety, security and the trustworthiness of elections.

The U.S. Alliance for Election Excellence recently notified the Macoupin County Clerk’s office that it has been picked for the group’s first-ever “Centers for Election Excellence” program.

Per a county release, this will give the county the ability to join with a bipartisan group of election officials from across the nation to discuss and hone their skills.

The Contra Costa County Elections Division has been selected by the nonpartisan U.S. Alliance for Election Excellence as a Center for Election Excellence.

Thanks to TED, in 2018, The Audacious Project was born as an initiative to support changemakers that are lighting a path toward a better future.

Election infrastructure in the United States is crumbling, says technologist Tiana Epps-Johnson, and, even worse, election officials are increasingly being attacked simply for doing their jobs. How can the country rebuild trust in its local and national elections? Epps-Johnson describes how the U.S. Alliance for Election Excellence, a nonpartisan collaborative of election officials, technologists, designers…