This month’s speaker will be Matt Masterson, who will speak on “Zero Trust: How to Secure American Elections when losers won’t accept they lost.”

Matt is currently a non-resident policy fellow with the Stanford Internet Observatory. Previously, he was Senior Security Advisor at the Department of Homeland Security, where he focused on election security issues. Before that, he was a Commissioner of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission, serving as chair 2017-2018.

Philip B. Stark is Professor of Statistics and Associate Dean of Mathematical and Physical Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the originator of risk-limiting audits, a rigorous method that ensures that tabulation errors did not change the reported election outcome—or (with pre-specified probability) corrects the outcome if it is incorrect. Stark has served on the Board of Advisors of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission since 2016. He has consulted for the Secretaries of State of California, Colorado, and New Hampshire, and has testified as an
expert witness in state and federal cases involving election integrity.

Michael J. Hanmer specializes in political participation, public opinion, and election reform. This work has led him to explore various stages of the voting process from the adoption of election laws that regulate the process, the ways government officials implement the laws, and the effects of the laws on behavior, to the interactions of citizens and the technology they use to cast a ballot.

M.V. (Trey) Hood III is a Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Georgia and Director of the SPIA Survey Research Center. In the area of election administration he has conducted research on voter ID laws, early in-person voting, election fraud, redistricting, Section 2 VRA claims, voter interaction with ballot marking systems, and the intersection of public opinion and changes to election law.

Ted Allen is Associate Professor of Integrated Systems Engineering at The Ohio State University. His interest relates specifically to ending in-person waiting in elections using simulation optimization and related methods. More broadly, he seeks to enable officials to run efficient and accurate elections using integrated systems engineering methods, including securing systems from cyber security threats.

Lonna Atkeson is the director of the LeRoy Collins Institute, a nonpartisan, statewide policy think tank that uses applied social science to understand and provide solutions to state and national problems. Her research focuses on elections, political behavior, public opinion, and public policy.

Barry Burden's research is focused on electoral politics, with an emphasis on the effects of election law and administration on a variety of outcomes including voter turnout. He hosted the 2018 Election Sciences, Reform, and Administration conference.

Martha Kropf is author of Institutions and the Right to Vote in American (Palgrave, 2016) and co-author of Helping America Vote: The Limits of Election Reform (Routledge, 2013, with David C. Kimball).