Partnership for Large Election Jurisdictions
Empowering Women in Elections Administration to Protect Democracy and Themselves
Understanding emerging threats, challenges, risks, and best practices alongside peers helps election administrators protect their communities from modern threats, while ensuring free and fair elections.
As stewards of democracy, local election administrators - 80% of whom are women - operate under extreme public scrutiny, legal constraints, and time pressure while being under-resourced and under-supported. Increasingly, they are also targeted with doxxing, harassment, and other emerging threats and challenges. Civil society can help them proactively engage with the public, defuse inaccurate information, and ensure continuity of operations in times of crisis. We have seen that peer community-building strengthens women's collective resilience to champion democracy.
Primary Barrier
Bias and Toxic Workplace Culture
Location
District of Columbia
Solution Region
Nation-wide
Community Type
Urban
