Contributor
Stephen Richer
Stephen Richer is the former elected (Republican) Maricopa County Recorder, where he was responsible for voter registration and early voting for the 4.6 million people in the Phoenix, Arizona metropolitan area. He is now a legal scholar at the Cato Institute, a lecturer and fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School, and the CEO of Republic Affairs, a Washington, D.C.-based solutions firm for civic nonprofits. He contributes to a number of media outlets in addition to Declare, as a political contributor and election analyst at NBC News, a regular columnist at The Arizona Republic, and a contributor to The Dispatch.
Richer’s contributions to election administration and American governance have earned him a number of awards including, “Defender of Democracy” (Time, 2024), “Leader of the Year” (Arizona Capitol Times, 2023), and “Arizonan of the Year” (The Arizona Republic, 2021).
