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Inside the movement to professionalize election administration

Madison City Clerk Lydia McComas leads efforts to professionalize election administration in Madison, Wisconsin, focusing on rebuilding public trust after last year's 193 missing ballots controversy.
After last year’s fallout, investigations, a civil lawsuit and the suspension and resignation of longtime clerk Maribeth Witzel-Behl intensified reform urgency amid more than 700 municipal clerks leaving between 2020 and 2024.
McComas drew on her Hennepin County Elections internship and University of Minnesota Humphrey School of Public Affairs graduate certificate, specializing in voter engagement for a jurisdiction of 700,000.
She plans outreach, stronger communications and training programs to demonstrate transparency next year, addressing gaps left by interim city clerk Mike Haas’s unnoticed improvements.
Amid a national push, programs like the Arizona Fellows program and 43-state training efforts aim to boost election work interest as Tammy Patrick and Paul Manson stress urgency, while Lydia McComas represents a younger generation.

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Inside the movement to professionalize election administration

Votebeat reports on Lydia McComas, a young clerk in Madison, working to rebuild trust in elections amid a turnover crisis in Wisconsin's election offices.

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