Thessalia (Lia) Merivaki, Ph.D.
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  • Zachary Djanogly Garai, Samuel Baltz, Joelle Gross, Thessalia Merivaki, Mara Suttmann-Lea, and Charles Stewart III. "From Nuts-and-Bolts to Crisis Response: The Transformation of Election Officials’ Communications on Twitter, 2012–2022." (2026). Journal of Election Administration, Research and Practice.  
  • Thessalia Merivaki and Mara Suttmann Lea. "Voter Education."(2025). Oxford Handbook for Electoral Integrity. 
  • Mara Suttmann-Lea, ​Thessalia Merivaki, and Rachel Orey. "When election officials speak, do voters listen? Trust-building communications, information seeking, and voter confidence in the 2022 midterm elections." (2025) Political Communication, Special Issue on Democratic Listening.
  • ​Thessalia Merivaki, Mara Suttmann-Lea, and Rachel Orey. "Does relying on "Close to home information sources increase voter confidence? Evidence from the 2022 midterm elections." (2025). Social Science Research.
  • Paul Gronke, David Kimball, Thessalia Merivaki, Mara Suttmann-Lea, Christian Grose, and Bridgett A. King. Local Election Administrators in the United States: The Frontline of Democracy. (2024) Springer Nature.
  • Thessalia Merivaki, Mara Suttmann-Lea, Mary Catherine McCreary, and Tyler Daniel.  "The #TrustedInfo2022 dataset: States' Trust-Building Social Media Campaigns During the 2022 Election Cycle."  (2024) State Politics & Policy Quarterly.
  • Thessalia Merivaki and Mara Suttmann-Lea. "Tracking Voter Education Policies Across the States." (2024) Funded by the U.S. Election Assistance Commission.​
  • ​Thessalia Merivaki and Mara Suttmann-Lea. "The Election Officials Communications Tracker" (Funded by Public Agenda's Democracy Renewal Grant).
  • Connie Moon Sehat (Hacks & Hackers), Ross Weistroffer (Hacks & Hackers), and Thessalia Merivaki. "ARTT for Local Election Officials: A pilot training model for de-escalatory language and connective communication in the election information ecosystem" (Funded by the Bipartisan Policy Center).
  • Webinar: Building Trust in Elections, July 28, 2023 (Sponsored by MIT Election Data Science Lab). 
  • Thessalia Merivaki and Mara Suttmann-Lea. "Combatting Misinformation and Building Trust in Elections: Assessing Election Official Communications During the 2022 Election Cycle" (Funded by MIT Election Data & Science Lab).
  • Joelle Gross, Samuel Baltz, Mara Suttmann-Lea, Lia Merivaki and Charles Stewart III.  "Online Hostility Towards Local Election Officials." in Dari Tran ed. Pandemic at the Polls. Rowman & Littlefield (2024). 
  • ​Mara Suttmann-Lea and Thessalia Merivaki. "The Impact of Voter Education on Voter Confidence: Evidence from the 2020 Election." (2023). Election Law Journal.
  • Mara Suttmann-Lea and Thessalia Merivaki." Don't Drown The Message: The Effects of Voter Education on Mail Ballot Acceptance Rates in North Carolina." Journal of Election Administration, Research and Practice (2023): 69-95.​
  • Thessalia Merivaki, and Mara Suttmann-Lea. "Can electoral management bodies expand the pool of registered voters? Examining the effects of face-to-face, remote, traditional, and social media outreach." Policy Studies (2022): 1-31.
  • Thessalia Merivaki , and Mara Suttmann-Lea. "Designing Voter Education Across the States: State Responses to the Help America Vote Act." Election Law Journal: Rules. Politics, and Policy (2021).
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