Kathleen Hale is Professor of Political Science at Auburn University where she directs its Election Administration Initiative and Graduate Program in Election Administration. She teaches courses in election administration, qualitative methods, and intergovernmental relations, and her research examines how to improve capacity of government and nonprofit organizations to address public problems. Dr. Hale also directs Auburn’s partnership with the Election Center (National Association of Election Officials) to professionalize the public administration of elections through its national certification program.

John C. Fortier is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, where he focuses on Congress and elections, election administration, election demographics, voting (and absentee voting), the US presidency, and the Electoral College. He was previously director of the Bipartisan Policy Center's Democracy Project. He is the author of Absentee and Early Voting: Trends, Promises and Perils, the author and editor of After the People Vote: A Guide to the Electoral College, and numerous academic articles in political science and law journals. Fortier has been a regular columnist for The Hill and Politico.

Daron Shaw's areas of expertise include elections and campaigns, public opinion and voting behavior, political parties, and survey research and analysis. He is currently on the advisory group for the Pew Elections Performance Index, and in 2013 he served as one of the lead academic research directors for the Presidential Commission on Election Administration.

Eitan Hersh studies civic participation and the relationship between election rules, strategies, and the behavior of voters. He has used such databases to study the voter registration system, voter ID laws, early voting, and electoral participation. He has also used voter files to answer questions on a wide range of topics, including terrorism, medical practice, and religious leadership.

Justin Grimmer is a Professor in Stanford University's Department of Political Science, Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, and Co-Director of the Democracy and Polarization Lab. His research focuses on Congress, elections, social media, and data science.

Jan E. Leighley's research and teaching interests focus on American political behavior, voter turnout, media and politics, and racial/ethnic political behavior. She is a co-author with Jonathan Nagler, NYU, of Who Votes Now? Demographics, Issues, Inequality and Turnout in the United States (Princeton: 2014).

Jeff Milyo's research projects examine the effects of state campaign finance regulations on political corruption and trust in government; the effects of campaign spending on electoral competitiveness, the effects of lobbying and disclosure regulations on political participation; and the effects of voter identification laws on voter turnout and confidence in the integrity of elections.

Marc Meredith is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science, and holds a secondary appointment in the Business Economics and Public Policy Department in the Wharton School. Most of Meredith's research focuses on American electoral politics, with a particular emphasis on the application of causal inference methods. His substantive research interests include election administration, election law, political campaigns, and voter decision-making. Meredith’s research appears in the American Political Science Review, the American Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Politics, the Proceedings of the National Academies of Science, and Science Advances among other outlets. He has served as an expert witness in election administration litigation about access to convenience voting, extensions of polling place hours, limits on polling place consolidation, and the rights of inactive registrants. Meredith also serves as a senior analyst on the NBC Decision Desk.

Andrew Hall’s research is about understanding and improving democratic elections, policy, and governance. His current research seeks to understand how democratic elections can be safely administered during the COVID-19 pandemic, why political polarization has risen and how it could be reduced, and how American government can become more effective and innovative. To understand these topics, Hall’s research group collects large-scale new data on elections, policy outcomes, and individual behavior, and analyzes them using cutting-edge methods from econometrics, statistics, and data science.