After our votes have been cast, counted, certified and then challenged in court and adjudicated, how do we have faith and trust in the integrity of the process and the results?

Learn the facts about elections from an expert who has spent his career ensuring fair domestic and international elections. 

Bill will weave his international experiences helping countries conduct the fair elections that are a requisite of democracy into a look at how elections have evolved over our history here in the United States as a democratic republic.

Voter’s trust in the U.S. election process has been assaulted over the past decade and is now at an all-time low. In the United States, there is no “national” election.  Rather, cities, counties and states are responsible for administering the election in their jurisdictions.  Bill’s “look under the hood” is an effort to restore trust in letting all voices be heard and all votes be counted.

What to expect: 

2024 was a global election year.  We will review what happened from the perspective of the administration of the process in hopes of recovering some faith in the process. 

Bill Sweeney

William “Bill” Sweeney

William “Bill” Sweeney has spent his career leading and managing efforts to affect public and business decisions from three distinct sectors: not for profit, business and political party. He has been engaged in projects in over 50 countries and almost every state in the United States. More recently, Bill Sweeney, Jr. was President and Chief Executive Officer of the International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES), serving as Chairman of the Board from 1998 through 2000. Bill was Vice President of Global Government Affairs for EDS, a Fortune 100 information services company, from 2000 until the 2009 acquisition of EDS by Hewlett Packard. He has served as Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center as well as chairman or member of the board of over a dozen business and technology associations. Bill received a BA in political science from The American University in 1973.

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