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ABOUT COMMISSIONER HOVLAND: I was confirmed by unanimous consent of the United States Senate on January 2, 2019 to serve on the U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC). My 20-year career in elections has been shaped by my commitment to improving election administration and removing barriers to voting. Most recently, I served as Acting Chief Counsel for the U.S. Senate Committee on Rules and Administration, where I focused on the federal government’s role in election administration and campaign finance regulation. Earlier in my career, as the Deputy General Counsel for the Missouri Secretary of State’s office, I focused on legal issues related to the administration of state and federal elections, including recounts, poll worker training, voter registration list maintenance, statewide database matching, voter education resources and ballot initiative litigation.
ABOUT SECRETARY TOULOUSE OLIVER: I have called New Mexico home since the age of 3 and am proud to be New Mexico’s 26th Secretary of State. I have served the people of New Mexico in this role since first being elected in 2016.
I was first appointed to public office in 2007 when I became County Clerk in New Mexico’s largest county, Bernalillo County. Elected to my first full term in 2008, Secretary Toulouse Oliver served 2 1/2 terms as County Clerk until she was elected as Secretary of State in 2016. Overseeing elections in the state’s largest county gave me detailed, on-the-ground expertise in election administration that has helped to guide my current work overseeing elections statewide.
I have been involved in politics and public policy for over two decades and have made public service the focus of my career. My work has focused on increasing voter access, running efficient, secure, and fair elections, and bringing more transparency and increased ethical standards to government.
I worked my way through college and graduate school. While earning my Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Political Science from the University of New Mexico, I worked for U.S. Senator Jeff Bingaman in his DC Office and on his re-election campaign in 2000. I also gained activism and organizing experience working with Native American tribes in New Mexico, fighting for reproductive justice, and protecting the Environment as the NM State Director for the League of Conservation Voters.
Since becoming Secretary of State I have implemented increased transparency rules for financial disclosure and campaign finance reporting, modernized the online campaign finance system, helped craft and pass good government legislation like same-day voter registration, automated voter registration, and the state’s newly-formed Ethics Commission.
In addition to my elected position, I am the immediate Past President of the National Association of Secretaries of State (NASS), and have previously served NASS as President, President-Elect, Treasurer, and chair of the elections committee. I serve as a board member of New Mexico’s Public Employees Retirement Association (PERA), the New Mexico Martin Luther King, Jr. Commission, and the state Commission on Records and Archives. I am currently a member of the University of Southern California Annenberg Center’s Voter Communication task force, and an advisory board member for the Election Official Legal Defense Network co-founded by national election law experts Benjamin Ginsburg and Bob Bauer. I am also a Ph.D. Student in Political Science at the University of New Mexico and is a W.K. Kellogg Foundation Community Leadership Network Fellowship alumna. Most importantly, I am the proud mother of two sons, Christian and Max.
Thank you everyone for writing in – this has been a great discussion! Unfortunately, I am not able to reply to every question right now. If schedule allows, I hope to be able to revisit the conversation later this week. If you are interested in learning more about my work please follow me on Twitter @DrLewina or visit my BU Profile https://profiles.bu.edu/lewina.lee
I’m Dr. Lewina Lee, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the Boston University School of Medicine and a Staff Investigator and Clinical Psychologist at the National Center for Posttraumatic Stress at the Veteran Affairs Boston Healthcare System. I co-direct the Boston Early Adversity and Mortality Study (BEAMS), which brings together many different types of data spanning our participants’ life course to help understand life-long processes linking psychosocial and environmental aspects of our childhood experiences to later-life health.
I’m happy to answer questions on any of these topics, including:
What is stress?
What are psychosocial stressors and how do they affect our health?
Does early adversity exposure always lead to negative health outcomes?
What are some examples of stress- related conditions?
Can the effects of early life adversity be overcome?
What strategies can people implement in their daily lives to deal with stressors?
How may optimism affect an individual’s physical and mental health?
What qualifies as having an optimistic outlook on life? Is it possible to train your brain to be more optimistic?
What steps can people can take to promote healthy aging?
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Update 12pm EST 10/26/2022: We are stepping away to do some other work, but will be keeping an eye on questions here and try to answer as many as we can throughout the day. Thank you for joining us!
Original message: Hey, everyone! We’re Maurice Chammah (u/mauricechammah), a staff writer for The Marshall Project (u/marshall_project), and Mirya Holman (u/mirya_holman), a political science professor at Tulane University.
If Chuck Jenkins, Joe Arpaio or David Clarke are familiar names to you, you already know the extreme impact on culture and law enforcement sheriffs can have. In some communities, the sheriff can be larger than life — and it can feel like their power is, too. A few years ago, I was interviewing a sheriff in rural Missouri about abuses in his jail, when he said, rather ominously, that if I wrote something “not particularly true” — which I took to mean that he didn’t like — then “I wouldn’t advise you to come back.” The hairs stood up on the back of my neck.
I wondered: Why did this sheriff perceive himself to be so powerful?
Hundreds of sheriffs are on ballots across the country this November, and in an increasingly partisan America, these officials are lobbying lawmakers, running jails and carrying out evictions, and deciding how aggressively to enforce laws. What do you know about the candidates in your area?
Holman and Farris are the undeniable leading scholarly experts on sheriffs. We recently teamed up on a survey to understand the blend of policing and politics, hearing from about 1 in 6 sheriffs nationwide, or 500+ sheriffs.
Many subscribe to a notion popular on the right that, in their counties, their power supersedes that of the governor or the president. (Former Oath Keepers board member Richard Mack's "Constitutional sheriff" movement is an influential reason why.)
A small, but still significant number, of sheriffs also support far-right anti-government group the Oath Keepers, some of whose members are on trial for invading the U.S. Capitol.
Most believe mass protests like those against the 2020 police murder of George Floyd are motivated by bias against law enforcement.
Ask us anything!
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*** Thanks folks! This was a lot of fun. Wish I could stick around, but I am about to be on Ryan Sprague's podcast SOMEWHERE IN THE SKIES. Thanks for all the great questions. ***
My name is James Fox -- I have been producing documentaries on the subject of UFOs (commonly referred to now as UAPs) for nearly 30 years. I have traveled across the globe from China, Africa, Russia, Australia and many more areas to learn what I could regarding this fascinating subject. I'm making myself available on Reddit Wednesday 11AM PT / 2:00PM ET to discuss the politics of disclosure and my latest film, Moment of Contact. https://youtu.be/pE7hVSlk7Zw
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