Voting doesn’t need to be so hard. Let’s redesign it. | Amber McReynolds | TEDxMileHigh
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Amber McReynolds |
TEDxMileHigh
• August 2020
Waiting in line for seven hours, limited polling locations, confusing voter registration policies: these are hallmarks of an American election. Why is voting so inconvenient? Amber McReynolds, CEO of the National Vote at Home Institute and Coalition, explains how we can save our democracy by improving our elections process.
Amber McReynolds is one of the country’s leading experts on election administration and policy and co-author of the book "When Women Vote." Amber is the CEO for the National Vote At Home Institute and Coalition and is the former director of elections for Denver, Colorado. During her time there, she transformed the elections division into a national and international award-winning office. She has a masters in comparative politics from the London School of Economics and a bachelors in political science and communications from the University of Illinois.
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