Elections: How Should We Encourage and Safeguard Voting?
Class | Registration opens 8/31/2026 8:58 AM EDT
Registration deadline: Oct. 21st
Many Americans are concerned about the US election system although we don’t always agree on the main problem or how best to fix it. Is it too hard to vote? Is the system too easy to manipulate? Do we have rules that make voting fair and accessible to all? Are we doing enough to ensure accuracy and credibility? There was record voter turnout in November 2022.
This discussion class will use a discussion guide produced by NIFI. National Issues Forums Institute (NIFI), is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that serves to promote public deliberation about difficult public issues. Its activities include publishing the issue guides and other materials used by local forum groups, encouraging collaboration among forum sponsors, and sharing information about current activities in the network.
Facilitator Hugh Grefe has served in a variety of executive, civic, and board roles in the greater Toledo community. Grefe earned a Master of Arts in History at the University of Toledo and in 2002 was awarded a Fannie Mae Foundation Fellowship to participate in the Program for Senior Executives in State and Local Government at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.