Preventing election mistakes and mitigating their effects to counter weaponization

2023 Alliance for Securing Democracy policy paper by David Levine and Krystyna Sikora examines recent administration errors in elections in Michigan, Texas, and Arizona counties, and offers recommendations aimed at reducing errors and mitigating their impacts in future elections.

Do vice-presidential candidates affect presidential races?

In The Atlantic, Lora Kelley digs into the complicated reality of what role nominees for vice president have in determining election outcomes. This, plus polling about J.D. Vance, gives me optimism about Kamala Harris’s campaign, and I have some thoughts on Senator Mark Kelly’s credibility on a unique set of important issues.

Actual horse racing journalists on political ‘horse race journalism’

Black and white image labeled "Lawn, Belmont" showing a fence and hedge in the foreground, men wearing dress staw hats standing around, horse track stands behind them topped with flags

A Poynter story takes a step back and considers the term used negatively to describe play-by-play style coverage of political campaigns and elections: how the comparison does and does not fit—and what it can reveal

‘Why protest when they could proselytize?’

But why protest when they could proselytize? For the reasons acknowledged by Krugman, Brooks, and Page, Trump’s attracting marginalized Americans. Some are racist thugs, but others are victims of circumstance and the very Americans for whom, though apparently not to whom, Bernie Sanders, for one, says he speaks. Why do Trump’s opponents antagonize these people when they could be trying to win them over?