All Angles - Election Integrity and Our Democracy

Pitt students representing all political leanings and all levels of political involvement identified concerns with democracy as the single most important societal issue in the most recent All Angles survey of student interests. Ongoing national discord produced by the 2020 Presidential Election almost certainly was a major contributor to that ranking, which would have been very surprising not many years ago. During this program, Pitt students had the opportunity to observe a civil and serious discussion of these critical issues with two of the nation’s most influential experts on the subject of elections.

Sean Morales-Doyle is Director of the Voting Rights Program of the Brennan Center for Justice at the New York University School of Law, and Hans von Spakovsky is Manager of the Election Reform Initiative and a Senior Legal Fellow in the Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies at the Heritage Foundation were the featured speakers. Chancellor Emeritus and Institute of Politics Chair Mark Nordenberg, who chaired the 2021 Pennsylvania Legislative Reapportionment Commission, moderated this session.