The Beebe Library is pleased to be hosting Christa Case Bryant, a national political reporter for The Christian Science Monitor in Boston, for this Zoom event about election security and integrity. She will give an overview of five main topics – mail-in voting, misinformation & disinformation, foreign interference, cybersecurity, and how to interpret polling data – and then we'll open up the meeting for Q&A. Participants are also welcome to submit questions ahead of time by emailing email@wakefieldlibrary.org and putting "election 2020" in the subject line.

Ms. Bryant served as the Monitor's Politics editor from 2016-17, and has spent the past three years reporting on US politics & government, first as Heartland correspondent and then on the campaign trail. In her 16 years with the Monitor, she has also served as Jerusalem bureau chief and as an editor on the International News desk. She studied cybersecurity at Harvard as a Nieman journalism fellow, and wrote her master's thesis last year for The Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy on Russian hacking and disinformation targeting the 2016 U.S. election.

Below are links to a selection of Ms. Case Bryant's recent articles:

Why Pennsylvania is ground-zero for mail-in voting debate

The election is in 94 days. Will the results be seen as legitimate?

Cybersecurity 2020: What Estonia knows about thwarting the Russians

Vote by mail. Is it safe, fair, and ready for November?

Fake news 101: A guide to help sniff out the truth

Some battleground polls missed 2016. Are they better for 2020?

As November approaches, are newsrooms ready for Guccifer 3.0?