Thessalia (Lia) Merivaki, Ph.D.
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    • Voter Education Research
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  • "Analysis and Response Toolkit for Trust." Strengthening Trust and Professionalism in Election Administration webinar, The Elections Group, December 10, 2025.
  • "Humans in the Loop: Building Trust in Elections with Bipartisan Messaging." Massive Data Institute, December 4, 2025.
  • "Generative AI for Election Officials: Use Cases, Best Practices, and Ethical Guardrails," White Paper for ASU's Mechanics of Democracy Lab (with Ioannis Ziogas).
  • "Prompts in Practice: Assessing Election Website Accessibility." AI and Elections Clinic Substack, October 21, 2025 (with Sam Rowland).
  • "Prompts in Practice: Using AI Tools to Improve Election Website Accessibility." AI and Elections Clinic Substack, October 21, 2025 (with Sam Rowland and TJ Pyche).
  • "Bringing AI to the Ballot Box: What Election Officials Need to Know." McCourt School of Public Policy, September 11, 2025 (with Ioannis Ziogas). 
  • "Cognitive burden, voting systems, and voter satisfaction: How are they connected?" Center for Election Science Blog, July 20, 2025 (with Ryann Alonso and Whitney Hua). 
  • "Massive Data Institute drives community efforts to preserve at-risk data." Massive Data Institute. July 17, 2025. 
  • "Voter Education: Right-Sizing Funding and Support for Local Election Officials." EVIC Blog (with Mara Suttmann-Lea and Paul Gronke). May 15, 2025. 
  • "ARTT-LEO and the Election Official's Dilemma." Discourse Labs Blog (with Connie Moon-Sehat). February 14, 2025.
  • "Virtual Roundtable: What's next in the post-2020 early voting boom?"Co-hosted with Secure Democracy Foundation, January 15, 2025. 
  • "The Everyday Warfare of Voting in America." The Atlantic. October 25, 2024.
  • "You are invited to the voting party: celebrating National Voter Education ." Electionline. October 10, 2024. 
  • "Building Trust, one post at a time: Election Officials as Influencers." Democracy Stakes Substack, October 8, 2024.
  • Speaker Series: Dr. Lia Merivaki and Dr. Mara Suttmann-Lea, The Center for Election Science, August 27, 2024. 
  • "How Elon Musk's secretive PAC is truing to move the needle for Trump." fastcompany.com, August 27, 2024. 
  • "Resources to Support Election Worker Resilience" Webinar, The Elections Group and The Carter Center, August 20, 2024.
  • "Building Confidence in Elections: Effective Communication Strategies for Election Officials," with Mara Suttmann-Lea.
  • "Building an Informed Citizenry, Starting with Elections Webinar," The Elections Group, July 26, 2024.
  • "​Dr. Lia Merivaki and the Democracy Renewal Project," Mississippi State University, Vision Podcast, April 29, 2024. 
  • "Young Mississippi voters are left out without online voter registration," Mississippi Free Press, May 26, 2023 (with Leslie Baker and James Chamberlain).
  • "Building voter trust on social media," MIT Election Data and Science Lab, March 30, 2023 (with Mara Suttmann-Lea).
  • “Midterms 2022: 4 experts on the effects of voter intimidation laws, widespread mail-in voting – and what makes a winner.” The Conversation, November 8, 2022 (Contributing Author).
  • "Voting in Georgia: What's New in 2022?" The Carter Center, Facebook Live, October 6, 2022. 
  • "As the midterms loom, here's how election officials can help voters: It's National Voter Education Week! Do you know what your election officials are doing?" The Monkey Cage Blog, October 5, 2022 (With Mara Suttmann-Lea).
  • "Vision Podcast Episode 43 - Dr. Lia Merivaki and the 2022 Midterm Elections" College of Arts and Sciences, Mississippi State University.
  • "Local election offices often are missing on social media – and the information they do post often gets ignored," The Conversation, August 31, 2022 (With Mara Suttman-Lea.)
  • "15 Minutes with Elections Expert Thessalia Merivaki," Quarterly Publication of the Trust the Vote Project, OSET Institute, July 17, 2022. 
  • "Online Voter Education by local election officials is a powerful tool for reaching 100% student voting." State of the Student Vote, June 21, 2022 (with Mara Suttmann-Lea). 
  • "How do Local Election Officials reach new voters?" MIT Election Data and Science Lab, November 4, 2021 (with Mara Suttmann-Lea).
  • "Is ballot collection, or 'ballot harvesting,' good for democracy? We asked 5 experts," The Conversation, May 15, 2021.​
  • "Elections Rule," No Jargon Podcast, Scholars Strategy Network, October 9 2020.
  • "Poll workers on Election Day will be younger - and probably more diverse- due to COVID-19," the Conversation, September 17, 2020. 
  • "Securing Fair Elections: Challenges to Voting in the United States and Georgia," Scholars Strategy Network, December 10, 2019 (contributing author).
  • "Measuring Voter Engagement in Election Administration: How much Do States Expect from Local Election Officials?," MIT Election Data and Science Lab, July 12, 2019 (with Mara Suttman-Lea).
  • "Why those who register to vote early can risk having their voter registration rejected," London School of Economics American Politics and Policy Blog, February 27, 2019.
  • ​“Managing Voter Registration Lists the Hybrid Way: The Case of Mississippi,” MIT Election Data and Science Lab, July 26, 2018 (with Sean Conner).
  • “Who Votes Provisionally and Why? A Look at North Carolina’s 2016 General Election,” MIT Election Data and Science Lab, May 2, 2018 (with Daniel A. Smith).
  • “What Provisional Ballots Tell Us about the Remaining Challenges in America’s Local Voting Systems,” Scholars Strategy Network Key Findings, February 2018.
  • “The big cost of using big data in elections,” The Washington Post, October 18, 2015 (with Michael McDonald and Peter Licari).
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  • Home
  • CV
  • Election Officials Communications Tracker
  • Research
    • Voter Education Research
    • Ongoing Projects
  • Research Briefs, Media & Op-Eds
  • Teaching
    • Community Engaged Learning (CEL) Initiatives