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Interference Matters
Ballots and Bagels: Key Takeaways from the Texas Primaries
A Simple Fix for U.S. Democracy
As any American expat abroad will tell you, living far from the United States gives you a clearer view. My 25 years overseas startled me with realizations about my country, from weird little things (why do we have so many types of breakfast cereal?) [...]
Ballots and Bagels: Key Takeaways from the Texas Primaries
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 Ep. 1: A Conversation with Harris County, Texas Elections Administrator Isabel Longoria
“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 Should Consider Election Integrity Issues as They Vote in 2022
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 [...]
Kristine Berzina Discusses War Crimes in Bucha and the Hunagarian Elections on Latvijas Radio 1
War crimes in Ukraine and the world response. Parliamentary elections in Hungary. Political scientist Andis Kudors and journalist of the Latvian Radio News Service Uģis Lībietis evaluate the current affairs. We are in contact with Kristine Berzina, [...]
Key Narratives to Watch Before Sunday’s Hungarian Elections
This piece was written by Zsuzsanna Vegh and Bret Schafer with support from Logically AI. Hungary is holding parliamentary elections on April 3 that will decide whether the Fidesz-led Orbán government continues in office for a fourth consecutive te [...]
David Levine Explains How to Restore Faith in U.S. Elections on Inside Sources with Boyd Matheson
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: [...]
David Levine Tells Public News Service Idahoans Should ‘Vote for Democracy’ in 2022
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 [...]
How More Robust Election Observation Could Help Save U.S. Elections
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 [...]
David Levine in The Fulcrum: Texas Puts Its New Elections Law to the Test
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 [...]
David Levine and Daniel Hegedus in The Hill: OSCE Member States Must Deliver on Election Observation Mission for Hungary
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 [...]
David Levine and Daniel Hegedus in EU Observer: Hungary Monitors Not Enough to Stop First ‘Rigged’ Election in EU
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 [...]