Episode 18. Pamela (Pam) Smith

Pamela (Pam) Smith, the President & CEO of Verified Voting, plays a national leadership role in safeguarding elections, advocating for secure and fair voting processes, and building working alliances between advocates, election officials, and other stakeholders. First joining the organization in 2004, Smith has been a nationally-recognized expert on election security and administration for nearly 20 years. She leads the organization’s strategic priorities, advises election officials and voting rights partners in their work, and advocates for secure and fair election practices that enfranchise voters.

To learn more about Verified Voting, check out the following links!

• Website: verifiedvoting.org for resources and tools that help explain how votes are cast and counted

• The Verifier verifiedvoting.org/verifier, a tool that lets you explore voting equipment usage and post-election audit requirements across the country going back to 2006

• An in-house database of voting equipment at verifiedvoting.org/equipmentdb provides extensive information on the equipment used to cast – and count – votes.

A transcript of this episode can be found here.