About the Committee
The Committee for Safe and Secure Elections features cross-partisan experts in election administration and law enforcement who aim to support policies and practices that protect election workers and voters from violence, threats, and intimidation. The Committee also works to build relationships and trust between election officials and law enforcement to better equip them to prevent and respond to threats and violence against voters and election workers.
Our Members
Law Enforcement Leaders
Sheriff Paul Penzone
Chair Emeritus & Sheriff (Ret.)
Maricopa County, Arizona
Sheriff Justin Smith
Chair Emeritus & Sheriff (Ret.)
Larimer County, Colorado
Sheriff Don Barnes
Sheriff
Orange County, CA
Chris Harvey
Executive Director
Georgia Peace Officers Standards and Training Council
Dr. Tracie L. Keesee
Co-founder and President
Center for Policing Equity
Sheriff Peter Koutoujian
Sheriff
Middlesex, Massachusetts
Kawika Lau
U.S. Army (Ret.)
Federal Law Enforcement (Ret.)
Deputy Chief Kay Lokey
Deputy Chief (Ret.)
Metropolitan Nashville Police Department
Captain Harold Love
Captain, Owner and Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC)
Michigan State Police (Ret.), Harold J. Love & Associates
Undersheriff Chance Walkama
Undersheriff
Laramie County, WY
Election Officials
Neal Kelley
Chair Emeritus & Registrar (Ret.)
Orange County, CA
Marci Andino
Senior Director
Election Infrastructure Information Sharing and Analysis Center
Lori Augino
Vice President of Government Relations
Enhanced Voting
Kathy Boockvar
President
Athena Strategies, LLC.
Derek Bowens
Director of Elections
Durham County, North Carolina
Edgardo Cortés
Election Security Advisor
Brennan Center for Justice
Isaac Cramer
Executive Director
Charleston County (SC) Board of Voter Registration and Elections
Patti Dubois
City Clerk
Waterville, ME
Ricky Hatch
Clerk/Auditor
Weber County, Utah
Thomas Hicks
Commissioner
U.S. Election Assistance Commission
Kathy Holland
Former Elections Director
Alamance County, North Carolina
Nathan Jaramillo
Bureau of Elections Administrator
Bernalillo County, New Mexico
Craig Latimer
Supervisor of Elections
Hillsborough County, Florida
Carolina Lopez
Executive Director
Partnership for Large Election Jurisdictions (PLEJ)
Scott McDonell
County Clerk
Dane County, Wisconsin
Kevin McMahan
Assistant Secretary of State
Washington
Noah Praetz
Partner
Elections Group
Michelle K. Tassinari
First Deputy Secretary, Director and Legal Counsel
Elections Division Office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth, Massachusetts
Judge James Tatum
Judge
Bullock County, Alabama Probate Court
Kim Wyman
Senior Fellow, Elections Project
Bipartisan Policy Center
Election Experts
Nate Blumenthal
Deputy Director
Program for Countering Hybrid Threats
Rachael Dean Wilson
Managing Director
Alliance for Securing Democracy
Matthew Masterson
Director of Information Integrity
Microsoft
Lawrence Norden
Vice President, Elections & Government
Brennan Center for Justice
Matthew Weil
Executive Director, Elections Project
Bipartisan Policy Center
Veterans
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