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A new analysis by the Election Infrastructure Initiative sheds light on the significant financial strain local election officials faced during the 2024 election cycle, and the critical need for sustained, forward-thinking funding of our elections. In the 2024 cycle, election officials faced numerous challenges including natural disasters, efforts by foreign adversaries and domestic terrorists to … Read more
Thank you to Philadelphia City Commissioner Seth Bluestein for his important op ed in the Philly Inquirer, highlighting the critical role of poll workers and the reminder that in PA, some of those positions are elected offices on the ballot this year! Poll workers are the backbone of our democracy, ensuring elections run smoothly, fairly, … Read more
Athena Strategies is proud to spotlight Nazli Togrul, who has served as one of our outstanding Georgetown Tech & Public Policy Democracy Fellows throughout 2024. See Georgetown’s profile of her here. Nazli has played a pivotal role at Athena Strategies, researching and developing our Misinformation Roundup to shed light on emerging false narratives and conspiracy … Read more
It’s Day 4 of #NationalVoterEducationWeek and we can all make a difference in helping expand understanding of how elections work and the voting process! Thankfully, our election officials and other experts have created some excellent websites and videos to help spread the word. Athena Strategies’ Democracy Fellows combed websites across the country in search of the … Read more
On Day 3 of #NationalVoterEducationWeek, we welcome you back to Athena Strategies’ Misinformation Roundup, your bulletin of viral rumors that never happened! Through Misinformation Roundup, Athena Strategies aims to debunk falsehoods and empower individuals with accurate information, fostering a healthier democracy. Here are a few pieces of mis and disinformation that circulated on social media recently, … Read more
On Day 2 of Voter Education week, we wanted to highlight some excellent printable and sharable fact sheets & one-pagers from across the U.S. about how our elections work and how they are secured! Athena Strategies’ Democracy Fellows combed websites across the country in search of easy-to-understand fact sheets from reliable sources to help inform … Read more
This week is National Voter Education Week, and it’s never been so critical as now for all of us to help share accurate information about elections! Today we’ll start with an excellent short video from the PA Department of State and County Election officials in PA. This video explains in clear, simple terms how voting … Read more
Today is National Voter Registration Day! With the presidential election right around the corner, Athena Strategies urges everyone to exercise their fundamental right to vote. Surprisingly, as many as 1 in 4 eligible Americans are not registered. Your voice matters! Be a part of the solution and get your community vote-ready today. Take 30 seconds … Read more
Welcome back to Misinformation Roundup, your bulletin of viral rumors that never happened! Through Misinformation Roundup, Athena Strategies aims to debunk falsehoods and empower individuals with accurate information, fostering a healthier democracy. Here are a few pieces of mis and disinformation that circulated on social media recently, along with clear explanations of why they’re false. … Read more
The Committee for Safe & Secure Elections (CSSE) has published law enforcement quick reference guides for all 50 states and the District of Columbia. CSSE’s pocket guides contain key provisions of each state’s laws that help officials uphold election operations and protect election officials and voters from violence, threats and intimidation. All CSSE’s state-by-state guides, … Read more
Welcome back to Misinformation Roundup, your bulletin of viral rumors that never happened! Through Misinformation Roundup, Athena Strategies aims to debunk falsehoods and empower individuals with accurate information, fostering a healthier democracy. Here are a few pieces of mis and disinformation that circulated on social media recently, along with clear explanations of why they’re false. … Read more
On August 1, we commemorated National Poll Worker Recruitment Day! Athena Strategies urges you to join hundreds of thousands of Americans by signing up to do one of the most rewarding jobs in the country—be a poll worker on November 5! By signing up, you are committing to strengthening democracy right in your backyard. Poll … Read more