A selection of our work and experts featured in print, television, radio, and online.
David Levine Breaks Down Pennsylvania’s Certification of Primary Results on WURD Radio
WURD Radio · Reality Check 7.20.22 - David Levine David Levine is an Elections Integrity Fellow, Alliance for Securing Democracy German Marshall Fund of the United States. He joined Charles to discuss the three Pennsylvania counties’ refusal to tall [...]
David Levine Explains How to Run Safe and Smart Elections on the Conduit Street Podcast
On the latest episode of the Conduit Street Podcast, renowned elections expert David Levine joins Kevin Kinnally and Michael Sanderson to discuss election integrity and efficiency. Topics include strategies to deter and defend against misinformati [...]
Zack Cooper Assess Economic Measures Against Russia on War on the Rocks
Chris, Melanie, and Zack consider the economic measures taken by the United States and Europe to punish Russia for its invasion of Ukraine, especially those pertaining to oil and natural gas. To what extent are these policies responsible for risin [...]
David Levine in The Fulcrum: US Elections Require a Permanent Structure for Fighting Foreign Interference
The National Security Agency and U.S. Cyber Command recently reestablished their election security team to help secure the 2022 midterm elections. In light of Independent Sen. Angus King’s push for Cybercom to produce unclassified reports connected [...]
Josh Rudolph in Fletcher Security Review: War on Corruption
Kleptocracies seem to enjoy powerful coherence between their domestic and foreign policies, given that they wield power at home and abroad through the same corrupt assemblage of actors, networks, tactics, and resources. By prioritizing the fight aga [...]
Laura Thornton in The Hill: There’s Something More Dangerous Than the ‘Big Lie’
In a recent Jan. 6 hearing, Georgia election official Gabriel Sterling revealed the most important insight into our current democratic challenges. He was describing how he painstakingly went through each false election claim put forward by one of hi [...]
Laura Thornton in The Catalyst: How Democracies Should Respond in a Post-Fact World
Russia’s war in Ukraine is a horrific enactment of the struggle between autocracy and democracy. As President Volodymyr Zelenskyy poignantly stated, “Russia fears our democracy more than we are proud of it.” Putin understands well that democracy spr [...]
David Levine in The Fulcrum: Election Subversion Remains a Threat, But Some Voting Restrictions Go Too Far
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 [...]
New from ASD: China and the Digital Information Stack in the Global South
Pacific island nations recently rejected a deal that would, in part, further integrate their technological infrastructure and information systems with China. Despite the failure of this sweeping trade and security communique, China continues to deep [...]
Bryce Barros Analyzes the State of U.S.-Taiwan Relations on Radio Taiwan International
Under the Russian-Ukrainian war and the U.S. proposal of the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF), what challenges does the U.S. face from China in the Indo-Pacific region? In addition, Taiwan and the United States have launched the 21st Century T [...]
David Levine Discusses the RNC’s Plan to Contest the Elections on Cheddar News
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. [...]
ASD Launches Yandex Dashboard Tracking Russian-Language Propaganda
Russia’s information environment has become increasingly constricted. Banning the characterization of Russia’s war in Ukraine as anything but a “special military operation” is just one indication of the censorship and cherry-picking that takes place [...]