State and Local Solutions Are Integral to Protect Election Officials and Democracy
Protecting elections and election workers has to be done at every level of government.
October 27, 2022
Ben Berwick
Counsel
Ben Berwick co-leads the elections and voting rights team. In that capacity, he oversees Protect Democracy’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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How Trump’s 2020 Election Lies Have Gripped State Legislatures (opens a new window)
“In 2020, the plan of Trump and his allies hinged ultimately on getting state legislatures to overturn the will of the voters,” said Ben Berwick, a counsel at Protect Democracy, a nonpartisan group. “If past is prologue, that same strategy is likely to be central to efforts to subvert an election in the future.”
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