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The Election Science Office Hours Podcast

Professor R. Michael Alvarez, Caltech
The Election Science Office Hours Podcast
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  • The Election Science Office Hours Podcast

    Episode 31: Bridging the Gap: Supporting Election Stakeholders at the Intersection of Administration, Technology, and Security, with Mike Moser

    26/02/2026 | 53 mins.
    This is a great episode, join me as I talk with Mike Moser about election security. We have a wide-ranging conversation, considering current election security issues, how best to help election officials with cybersecurity, and the benefits and risks that AI brings when considering election security.
  • The Election Science Office Hours Podcast

    Episode 30: Trust and Confidence in Elections in Rural America, with Cameron Wimpy

    26/02/2026 | 52 mins.
    Just me as I talk with Cameron Wimpy, from Arkansas State University, as we discuss the unique problems that election officials face in rural parts of the U.S. Rural election administration is an understudied problem, and we discuss why it is understudied, how to solve that problem, and what this is a critical issue for anyone interested in how elections are conducted in the U.S.
  • The Election Science Office Hours Podcast

    Episode 29: A Research Driven Look at Claims About New Voting Technology with Michael Specter and Delaney Gomen

    29/01/2026 | 57 mins.
    Join us for this amazing episode with Michael Spector and Delaney Gomen, both from Georgia Tech. We talk about their new paper that uses innovative HCI methods to learn from election officials about usability issues they face using election technology. Along the way we talk quite a bit about how to improve trust between the research and elections community, so that more productive collaborations like this can be launched.
  • The Election Science Office Hours Podcast

    Episode 28: Inside the 2025 Caltech Election Integrity Project Conferences

    14/01/2026 | 57 mins.
    Join me as I talk with Betsy Sinclair about the work that we did in 2025 on AI and elections. In 2025 we organized and hosted two major conferences, bringing together researchers, election officials, election technologists, and stakeholders. Our first conference focused on information and elections, and then the second on how new AI technologies might be used to improve election administration. Throughout we also talked about the risks of new AI technologies for election administration.
  • The Election Science Office Hours Podcast

    Episode 27: Ballots Beyond Borders

    05/12/2025 | 58 mins.
    In this episode, I talk with three experts on military and overseas voting, Casandra Hockenberry, Paul Lux, and Hilary Rudy. We talk about the hurdles that military and overseas voters face when they try to received and return their ballots. We also discuss the procedural and technological solutions that help mitigate and resolve these hurdles.

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About The Election Science Office Hours Podcast

Let’s help voters be confident that their ballots are counted as cast. Honest conversations between host, Caltech prof and election expert Mike Alvarez, and election officials, researchers, and other stakeholders about elections.
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