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The question of exactly how American citizens exercise their right to vote has become a source of partisan acrimony this election year. In a nation whose patchwork of jurisdictions feature conflicting voter ID and registration requirements, lawmakers struggle to strike a balance between safeguarding the integrity of the electoral process and encouraging voter turnout.

Tensions have peaked in response to legislative efforts to tighten ID requirements in key battleground states. This past summer, student journalists participating in the national Carnegie-Knight News21 program, headquartered at the Cronkite School, produced a major national investigation into voting rights in the U.S. As part of the project, the students gathered, organized and analyzed all reported cases of election fraud in the U.S. since 2000, building the most comprehensive database of its kind.

Join News21 and New America Foundation to learn more about the findings of this investigation and explore the broader issue affecting this year’s election. We will also examine the latest innovations in online voter information from Google and the Internet Archive.

Who Can Vote?

Featuring
Maryann Batlle
News21 Fellow, Arizona State University

Joe Henke
News21 Fellow, Arizona State University

Moderator
Leonard Downie Jr.
Weil Family Professor of Journalism, Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, Arizona State University
Vice president-at-large and former executive editor of The Washington Post

And How Will They Be Informed?

Featuring
Roger MacDonald
Leader, Internet Archive TV News Research Service Project

Anthea Watson Strong
Independent consultant, Google Politics and Elections team

Moderator
Tom Glaisyer
Former Media Policy Fellow, New America Foundation

This event will be live online and broadcast live on ASUtv.

The Cronkite School will air the ASUtv broadcast in the First Amendment Forum.