Democracy at 250: Is Your Midterm Vote at Risk?

With concerns mounting over obstacles to free and fair midterm elections this November, ClassACT HR73 will offer an online forum “Democracy at 250: Is Your Midterm Vote at Risk?” on Monday, September 14 from 5:00 to 6:30 pm ET.

E. J. Dionne ’73, New York Times contributing columnist and Distinguished University Professor in the Foundations of Democracy and Culture at Georgetown University, will moderate a panel of experts on the challenges voters and election officials face this fall.

The panel is likely to take up such questions as recent efforts to purge voter rolls and to scale back mail-in-voting. Threats by the Secretary of Homeland Security to investigate and even jail local officials who do not adhere to recent election policy changes have also heightened anxiety.

Joining Dionne will be an esteemed panel that includes Sherrilyn Ifill, Former President & Director-Counsel, NAACP Legal Defense Fund, and Endowed Chair in Civil Rights, Howard University; Seth Waxman ’73, the 41st Solicitor General of the United States; and Wendy Weiser, Vice President of Democracy at the Brennan Center for Justice.

Join us for this critical discussion to learn about rising apprehensions over the sanctity of our elections, the cornerstone of our democracy. Then make a plan to vote this November and to help encourage other citizens to exercise this right.