Wednesdays, October 9, 16, 23, 30
9:30 to 11:30 a.m.

This year, we are going to take a close look at the electoral process itself rather than focusing on elections in key states. Since states are the ones that run elections, we’ll take a look at how they differ from one another.

We’ll discuss early, mail-in, and absentee voting; election hours; voter identification laws; and much more, as well as the varying impacts they have on voting experiences and turnouts. We’ll take a look at the historical roots of things like why we vote on Tuesdays. We’ll also check out what we can learn from how elections and voting are done in other countries.

Conveners: Carol Zar and Elizabeth Bass have convened an elections class every fall since 2010. Both are self-declared political junkies who have also led LLI sessions on other topics.