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Ben Berwick

Director of Impact Programs, Protecting Civic Space

Ben Berwick leads Protect Democracy’s Election Law & Litigation Team. In that capacity, he oversees the organization’s work to ensure that American elections are free and fair. He has also led several of Protect Democracy’s most significant litigation projects, as well as major efforts to ensure that the president is not above accountability and that the Department of Justice is not politicized. Ben is also a lecturer at Harvard Law School, where he co-teaches the Democracy and the Rule of Law clinic. Before joining Protect Democracy, he worked for 6.5 years in Civil Division of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ).

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Democrats aim to show a judge how pro-Trump Georgia election board could spark certification ‘chaos’ (opens a new window)

  • October 1, 2024
  • CNN

“The law is very clear in every state that certification is a mandatory duty,” said Ben Berwick, the head of election law and litigation at the advocacy group Protect Democracy. The role of those officials, he said, is “simply to affirm that the canvas and tabulation have been completed and that the results are official.”

“Even unsuccessful attempts to block certification can cause delays, and even small delays in the very tight post-election timeline can have us cascading effect,” Berwick said.