Navy veteran Alberto Ramos knows about the work that goes into voting at sea. That’s because there’s a specific job for it.
“It’s just support. It’s general support,” which New Hampshire could use from the federal government, its chief election official says. “Leave the actual processes up to the states.”
Poll worker shortages are a common concern of election officials nationwide. In West Virginia and Tennessee, the secretaries of state try out something new to aid recruitment efforts.
Declare’s new Q&A series answers timely questions about elections with the people best-positioned to know.
“Quite frankly, we’re best off when the federal government stays out of our elections.”
It’s a feature, not a glitch, that elections in this country are very decentralized, and that decentralized nature of elections administration has been a feature since the Founding.
Starting with a summer conference for America’s secretaries of state, three-plus months from the 2026 Midterms, Declare is spending time with chief election officials to get their insights on the election process.
The election lawyer and Declare contributor explains how Justice Barrett “said a lot without saying a lot” in her majority opinion in Watson v. Republican National Committee.
By Ben Ginsberg
Declare Talks with one of its newest contributors, the Executive Director of We the Veterans, about making big splashes to recruit poll workers and the implications of a recent Supreme Court decision.
Declare Talks with Stephen Richer
The chief election official in one of America’s biggest college towns talks about the task of communicating to voters.