elections
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October 31, 2022
Profiles of four Board of Regents candidates
Four candidates running for two seats on the Board of Regents in the Nov. 8 general election provided The University Record with short profiles describing their background and platform.
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October 28, 2022
Voters must wade through political information for accuracy
In this Q&A, Arthur Lupia, the Gerald R. Ford Distinguished University Professor of Political Science, talks about how voters seek information before going to the polls.
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October 28, 2022
Expert: Four ways Americans can keep their vote secure and accurate
J. Alex Halderman, one of the nation’s foremost election security experts and a professor of computer science at U-M, recommends steps that voters can take as they head to the polls this November.
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October 25, 2022
U-M experts tackle interaction of social media, democracy
Social media can be harmful to a functioning democracy, but it has the potential to be helpful — and where it lands has less to do with the technology than how it’s used, according to three U-M business experts.
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October 24, 2022
‘For Whom the Bell Polls’ uses music to promote the vote
In preparation for Election Day, U-M community members are invited to vote for the music they want played that day from the carillons in Burton Memorial Tower on Central Campus and Lurie Tower on North Campus.
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October 24, 2022
Campus briefs
Short news items from around the University of Michigan.
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October 3, 2022
Regent candidates discuss their ideas at Faculty Senate forum
Four candidates running for two seats on the U-M Board of Regents in the Nov. 8 general election made their case at an Oct. 3 forum hosted by the Faculty Senate.
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September 30, 2022
Regent candidate forum set for Oct. 3
The Faculty Senate will host a candidate forum at 10 a.m. Oct. 3 to hear from four candidates running for two seats on the Board of Regents. The forum will be conducted in person and online.
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July 15, 2022
U-M research data series awarded $14M to study 2024 elections
The American National Election Studies at U-M has been awarded $14 million by the National Science Foundation to conduct a study of the 2024 elections in the United States.
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November 8, 2021
U-M students broke voter turnout records in 2020
Voter turnout among U-M students jumped to 78 percent in the November 2020 election, according to a report from Tufts University. It was up 18 percentage points from 2016.