**PLEASE NOTE THIS IS A VIRTUAL PROGRAM THAT WILL TAKE PLACE VIA ZOOM. Registrants will receive a link to access the Zoom Webinarvia email.**  

The 2022 midterms are over and there was much talk about the impacts of gerrymandering and dark money on the election process and results. Join Professor Rachael V. Cobb for a discussion of these issues that have plagued us historically and, especially, in the last few years.

Led Professor Rachael V. Cobb, Ph.D., Chair and Associate Professor of Government at Suffolk University. Cobb specializes in U.S. elections, election administration, electoral politics, civic engagement, and political participation. She established the University Pollworkers Project, a nonpartisan program designed to recruit college students as poll workers as a response to reports of an estimated shortage of 500,000 poll workers nationwide. Since 2006, more than 1,000 students from the Greater Boston area have received training and worked as poll workers. Her work as appeared in the Quarterly Journal of Political Science and Studies in American Political Development. Cobb serves on the board of MassVOTE and the Boston Election Advisory Committee. She received her Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and her AB from Bryn Mawr College.

Register directly on Zoom HERE. Presented in collaboration with the Ashland Public Library.

NOTE: This program will be recorded. All registrants will receive the recording via email within 24 hours of the program.