Election Security and Improving State Election Laws
Honest Elections Project Executive Director Jason Snead talked about his organization's report on election security and improving state election laws, including two specific recommendations of banning rank-choice voting and blocking private election funding schemes.
Description
Honest Elections Project Executive Director Jason Snead talked about his organization's report on election security and improving state election laws, including specific recommendations of banning rank-choice voting, blocking private election funding schemes, requiring post-election audits, and securing early mail voting laws, among others.
Bell Ringer Assignment
- CLIP #1: According to Jason Snead, what is the Honest Elections Project and what do they do?
- CLIP #1: What is "wrong" with ranked choice voting and how does "ballot exhaustion" impact political races?
- CLIP #1: What private election funding does the Honest Elections Project want to "ban," and why? Summarize the example provided in the clip.
- CLIP #1: Where should additional election funding come from, according to Snead?
- CLIP #2: What are "process audits," and how and why should they be implemented?
- CLIP #2: Why should election results be provided "as close to election night as possible?"
- CLIP #2: What is the "question" regarding mail-in voting, and what related "common sense practices" should be implemented?
- CLIP #2: Compare Jocelyn Benson and Jason Snead's perspectives regarding early voting.
Additional Resources
- Video Clip: Election Integrity and Confidence in 2024 Results
- Video Clip: State Efforts to Change Voting Laws
- Video Clip: State Voter Identification Laws
- Video Clip: Efforts to Increase Youth Voter Turnout
- Bell Ringer: Problems with Party Primaries
- Bell Ringer: Ranked Choice Voting
- Bell Ringer: The History of State Voting Methods
- Bell Ringer: The History of Mail-In and Absentee Voting
- Lesson Plan: Foreign Interference in U.S. Elections
- Lesson Plan: Voting Machine Vulnerabilities and the Future Security of Elections
- Lesson Plan: Survey Analysis- Public Perceptions of Voting and Elections
- Lesson Plan: Why Do Americans Not Vote in Elections?
Participants
Vocabulary
- Ballot
- Constitution
- Coronavirus Pandemic
- Diminishing Return
- Donor
- Drop Box
- Early Voting
- Fraud
- Grant
- Jocelyn Benson
- Jurisdiction
- Legislature
- Majority
- Mark Zuckerberg
- Nonpartisan
- Nonprofit
- Personal Protective Equipment
- Primary Election
- Ranked Choice Voting
- Senate
- Special Interest