● POSTPONED: Office Hours, a webinar series presented by the Caltech 2024 Election Integrity Project

This webinar has been postponed.

Please join us on Tuesday, October 15, 2024 at 1:00 pm Pacific for the sixth installment of Office Hours, a webinar series presented by the Caltech 2024 Election Integrity Project and moderated by R. Michael Alvarez, PhD, Flintridge Foundation Professor of Political and Computational Social Science at Caltech and Co-Director, Linde Center for Science, Society, and Policy (LCSSP).

During this episode of Office Hours, we'll talk with New Mexico Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse Oliver - the State's Chief Election Official - about the steps that she has taken to secure the election process in New Mexico, while also improving accessibility, how they audit the vote in New Mexico, what role the Secretary of State plays in overseeing the election process in New Mexico, and what she might be concerned about in her state and throughout the country as we go into the final stretch of the 2024 election.

Maggie Toulouse OIiver is New Mexico's 26th Secretary of State, having served the people of New Mexico in this role since first being elected in 2016.

She was first appointed to public office in 2007 when she became County Clerk in New Mexico's largest county, Bernalillo County. Elected to her first full term in 2008, Secretary Toulouse Oliver served 2 1/2 terms as County Clerk until she was elected as Secretary of State in 2016. Secretary Toulouse Oliver worked her way through college and graduate school. While earning her Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Political Science from the University of New Mexico, Secretary Toulouse Oliver worked for U.S. Senator Jeff Bingaman in his DC Office and on his re-election campaign in 2000. She also gained activism and organizing experience working with Native American tribes in New Mexico and serving as the New Mexico State Director for the League of Conservation Voters.

In addition to her elected position, Secretary Toulouse Oliver is the immediate Past President of the National Association of Secretaries of State (NASS), and has previously served NASS as President, President-Elect, Treasurer, and chair of the elections committee. She serves as a board member of New Mexico's Public Employees Retirement Association (PERA), the New Mexico Martin Luther King, Jr. Commission, and the state Commission on Records and Archives. She is currently a member of the University of Southern California Annenberg Center's Voter Communication task force, and an advisory board member for the Election Official Legal Defense Network co-founded by national election law experts Benjamin Ginsburg and Bob Bauer. She is also a Ph.D. Student in Political Science at the University of New Mexico and is a W.K. Kellogg Foundation Community Leadership Network Fellowship alumna.

Register in advance for this meeting at: https://caltech.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_JkXve5NaTC6IjLHsdbol2A

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For more information on the Caltech 2024 Election Integrity Project, please visit our website at https://www.protectingtheelection.us/ or email us at [email protected].