Event announcement:

Voting in the Time of COVID-19:  Can We Make It Work?

An Ash Center/Harvard Kennedy School Event, Tuesday, May 19^th, 12:00-1:15

Ash Center Senior Practice Fellow Miles Rapoport will moderate a discussion with four leading voices with differing perspectives who will discuss what will be needed to make the November election work well, what they think the situation will actually be, and how voting might be changed for the future.  The Discussants are:

        *Kristen Clarke, President, Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law

        *Josh Kleinfeld, Professor of Law, Northwestern University

       *Rachel Kleinfeld, Senior Fellow, Carnegie Endowment

        *Charles Stewart, MIT, Professor and Director of Election Science Laboratory

Registration Required:    https://bit.ly/3fn46hs

TUESDAY, MAY 19, 12-1:15 PM  Voting In the Time of COVID-19 Can We Make It Work? The hurricane that is COVID-19 is blowing through the 2020 elections. Across the board, and the aisle, election officials, election scholars, and voting rights advocates are currently working and debating how to make November a success, rather than a catastrophe. Join us for a discussion about how we can come together to both find and make real solutions to safe elections.  Register for this event   PANELIST  Kristen Clarke President, Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law Kristen Clarke leads one of the country’s most important national civil rights organizations in the pursuit of equal justice for all.    PANELIST  Joshua Kleinfeld Professor of Law, Northwestern University Joshua Kleinfeld teaches and writes about political, legal, and moral philosophy, criminal law, and criminal procedure. He also practices law in Northwestern’s Juvenile Criminal Defense Clinic.   PANELIST  Rachel Kleinfeld Senior Fellow, Carnegie Endowment Dr. Rachel Kleinfeld focuses on issues of rule of law, security, and governance in post-conflict countries, fragile states, and states in transition. She was the founding CEO of the Truman National Security Project.  PANELIST  Charles Stewart Professor at MIT and Director of the MIT Election Science Laboratory Charles Stewart III’s research and teaching areas include congressional politics, elections, and American political development.  MODERATOR  Miles Rapoport Senior Practice Fellow in American Democracy, The Ash Center Miles Rapoport is a longtime organizer, policy advocate, and elected official.  Rapoport served as president of the independent grassroots organization Common Cause, headed the public policy center Demos, and was Connecticut’s Secretary of the State and a state legislator for ten years in Hartford.  Virtual Event Details This event will be livestreamed on YouTube Live. Attendees registered for this event will receive a reminder for the livestream fifteen minutes before the event along with a link to the YouTube page where you can participate in the live chat and ask questions during the event.