As the first public hearings about the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection underscored, the biggest current threat to the integrity of American elections is election subversion — i.e., efforts to interfere with or overturn the counting of votes or certificat [...]
Last week, ASD Elections Integrity Fellow David Levine spoke with Joseph Kirk, election supervisor for Bartow County, Georgia, on the latest episode of Ballots and Bagels. They talked about preparing for and administering Georgia’s May 24th primary, [...]
More than a year and a half after the violent assault on the U.S. Capitol, the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol will hold its first public hearing this Thursday. The televised series of hearings will f [...]
David Levine, elections integrity fellow with Alliance for Securing Democracy, joins Cheddar News to discuss Politico's bombshell finding revealing the RNC's plan to contest the elections. [...]
In episode 2 of the Alliance for Securing Democracy’s Ballots & Bagels series, Elections Integrity Fellow David Levine speaks to Seth Bluestein, city commissioner for the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Board of Elections, about what we can learn fro [...]
Last week, ASD Elections Integrity Fellow David Levine spoke with Seth Bluestein, city commissioner for the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Board of Elections, on the latest episode of Ballots and Bagels. They talked about preparing for and administering [...]
Last year, Georgia enacted a controversial elections law that critics said would make it significantly harder for people to vote. And while that may still be true, last week’s primary went smoothly with record turnout among both Republicans and Demo [...]
ASD Elections Integrity Fellow David Levine joined Newsy on Monday, May 23 to discuss record early voting and the impact of new voting laws in Georgia ahead of the state’s primary election. [...]
As the first wave of midterm primary elections approaches, it is becoming clear how elections will be conducted following the 2020 presidential election and the picture is not a pretty one in many jurisdictions. Many states, fueled by the “Big Lie” [...]
This week, Alliance for Securing Democracy launched “Ballots and Bagels: Conversations with Trusted Election Sources,” an interview series hosted by Elections Integrity Fellow David Levine that aims to highlight the successes of and lessons learned [...]
“Ballots and Bagels: Conversations with Trusted Election Sources” is a series by the Alliance for Securing Democracy (ASD) hosted by Elections Integrity Fellow David Levine. Given that a large portion of Americans still think the 2020 election was s [...]
French voters can be confident that no matter who they vote for in the second round of their presidential election, the process will reflect the will of the French people. But if they hope to have similar confidence in the integrity of future electi [...]
ASD's David Levine and GMF's Gesine Weber lay out four questions French voters should ask ahead of the presidential election. In its 2017 presidential election, France withstood one of the most significant efforts by the Kremlin to interfere in a [...]
Charges of stealing elections have been all too common in the US over the past decade and really went into hyper drive in 2020. But David Levine with the Alliance for Securing Democracy believes there is something simple that could restore trust: [...]
In the wake of misinformation about the 2020 election, one expert believes democracy is on the ballot this year. David Levine, elections integrity fellow at the Alliance for Securing Democracy and former Ada County elections director from 2017 to 20 [...]
The Alliance for Securing Democracy’s David Levine and the Carter Center’s Avery Davis-Roberts make the case that more nonpartisan observation is critical to ensuring the integrity of future elections and provide steps for improving nonpartisan obs [...]
Fueled by false conspiracy theories about a stolen presidential election, at least 19 states passed measures in 2021 that make it unnecessarily harder to cast, count and/or certify votes. A Texas law known as SB 1 may be the worst of the lot, and th [...]
Earlier this month, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (“OSCE”), pointedly recommended the deployment of a full-scale election observation mission (“EOM”) — one that includes a core team of analysts as well long and short-term o [...]
Although Europe's main election watchdog, the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE-ODIHR), raised significant concerns about the democratic character of Hungary's 2014 a [...]
We are witnessing an unprecedented attack on our democracy, fueled by baseless allegations that the 2020 election was stolen from former President Donald Trump. Such claims inspired the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol and spawned a sort of dual re [...]
When Idahoans vote in the 2022 elections later this year, Democrats and Republicans will not be the only candidates on the ballot — democracy will be as well. Idaho voters must do their part to ensure that future elections continue to represent the [...]
The aim of the Global Elections Day (GED) is to celebrate our most important democratic institution: elections. In the past almost two decades Global Elections Day evolved into a tradition, a real celebration organized in democracies throughout the [...]
One reason the 2020 presidential election was called the “most secure in American history” was that election administrators across the political spectrum faithfully put the conduct of free and fair elections before any partisan or personal interests [...]
As 2022 begins, eyes are trained on the Ukraine-Russia border as the potential for Russian escalation looms large. With nerves taut and gas supplies to Europe squeezed, NATO members are holding emergency meetings as US and European diplomats scrambl [...]
Elections Integrity Fellow David Levine joined the Votes and Ballots podcast to discuss attacks on public trust in elections and post-election audits. [...]
On December 9 and 10, U.S. President Joseph R. Biden will bring together leaders from 110 countries and governments for a virtual Summit for Democracy based around three key themes: defending against authoritarianism; addressing and fighting corrupt [...]
In this month’s election, Gov.-elect Glenn Youngkin’s 17-year-old son tried to cast a ballot not once, but twice, despite being too young to vote, according to Fairfax County officials. His failure to cast a ballot not only reinforced the security a [...]
While cable news and statehouses are focused on the "big lie" following the 2020 presidential election, a more insidious (and immediate) threat awaits the jurisdictions conducting elections this week: the weaponization of real vulnerabilities in ele [...]
The government of the Russian Federation uses different approaches to destabilize democratic governments across Europe and encourage the rise of populist, anti-democratic regimes. In the face of this challenge, what can be done to assist countries i [...]
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 swept them. Kristi St. Laurent, a Democrat, requested a [...]
On today's show, we talk all things federal election. We hear from Tim Uppal, Conservative candidate for Edmonton-Mill Woods on the tight race that played out there. Dr. Lisa Young a political science professor at the University of Calgary gives her [...]
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 [...]
Sooner or later harmful trends observed in the United States often take hold in Germany. They might not be at the scale of what Americans confront, but the telltale signs are evident even in Germany’s strong democracy. That especially applies to ele [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
ASD Elections Integrity Fellow David Levine and the Open Source Election Technology Institute’s Global Director of Technology Development and Open Standards Edward Perez lay out ways to bolster election integrity by strengthening the security of el [...]
President Biden’s trip to demonstrate “America’s renewed commitment to our allies and partners” and showcase “the capacity of democracies to both meet the challenges and deter the threats” culminates with a one-on-one meeting between Biden and Russi [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]