Our work on the 2020 U.S. elections.
Election Q&A: David Levine Explains What Went Wrong with the Windham, New Hampshire 2020 Vote Count
Describe the story in one line (formatted in italics) Windham, New Hampshire, a town with 14,000 residents, found itself in the public eye after the 2020 election. Eight candidates ran for four open seats in the state legislature, and Republicans s [...]
Q&A with David Levine: How Can the U.S. Respond to Efforts to Subvert Democratic Processes?
Disinformation-fueled partisan “audits” have been popping up around the United States in the ten months since the 2020 presidential election. Election workers face unprecedented levels of harassment sparked by false voter-fraud claims. And 51 percen [...]
David Levine in NY Daily News: Don’t Use the Board of Elections’ Screwup to Undermine Confidence in Democracy
I don’t need to tell New Yorkers that the New York City Board of Elections badly bungled the release of preliminary ranked-choice results from the city’s recent mayoral primary. Between this serious mistake and many previous well-documented mishaps, [...]
David Levine Discusses Election Security Amid Threats to Ballot Access with GovExec
On Thursday morning, the Supreme Court overruled a previous federal appeals court decision that held that Arizona voting laws disproportionately affected voters of color, a violation of the Voting Rights Act. The Thursday ruling is another blow to v [...]
How To Retain Election Officials To Secure Future Elections
Introduction The 2020 presidential election was called the most secure in U.S. history, largely due to efforts to protect the nation’s different physical and cyber infrastructure. This was a triumph considering the physical, cyber, and even human [...]
Q&A with David Levine: How Does Arizona’s ‘Audit’ Compare To What Audits Are Supposed To Be?
Last month—nearly five months after Joe Biden was declared the winner of the 2020 election— Arizona Republicans began an “audit” of millions of ballots in Arizona’s largest county, which President Biden won by 45,109 votes. The state Senate hired a [...]
David Levine in The Fulcrum: How Congress Can Help Keep Threats to Our Elections at Bay
It's been over six months since the 2020 presidential election, and Congress remains deeply at odds over how to build on the successes of the election while addressing some of the most significant challenges that were exposed. Intelligence officials [...]
David Levine and Steve Daitch in Electionline: Real Audits Build Trust
Due to the ongoing faux audit of some ballots in Arizona’s 2020 presidential election, much of the public’s attention on ensuring trust in elections has understandably centered around audits. Many voters say that they trust a hand count audit. Hand [...]
David Levine On Election Resilience and Trust with Idaho Association of County Recorders and Clerks
Elections Integrity Fellow David Levine gave a presentation on election resilience and trust at the Idaho Association of County Recorders and Clerks' 2021 conference. [...]
Brad Hanlon Discusses What Worked, What Didn’t, and What’s Next after the 2020 Election on SiriusXM
Program Manager and Analyst Bradley Hanlon joined Julie Mason to discuss the more than 200 actions the government, private sector, and civil society took to secure the 2020 election against foreign interference and how we can improve going forward. [...]
Defending 2020: What Worked, What Didn’t, and What’s Next
Executive Summary The 2016 presidential election served as a wakeup call to the threat of authoritarian interference, and in the years since, many segments of American society—from the federal government to private companies and civil society gro [...]
Bret Schafer on Information Warfare and How Social Media Disrupts Democracy on the Jist
Media and Digital Disinformation Fellow Bret Schafer joined Josh Hamilton on The Jist. Bret and Josh first spoke three to discuss the weaponization of information and the threat to democracy. Now, three years later, things have unfortunately not gott [...]