Episode 21. David Levine

David Levine is the Director of Elections and General Registrar for the City of Richmond, Virginia. Previously, he served as a senior fellow at UMD’s Center for Democracy and Civic Engagement and as an election security adjunct professor at George Mason University. Before then, he worked as the senior elections integrity fellow at the German Marshall Fund’s Alliance for Securing Democracy. And before that he was the Ada County, Idaho Elections Director, managing the administration of all federal, state, county, and local district elections for 25% of the state’s population.

David’s engagements and publications focus on election access, trust and security, and the nexus between external threats from malign actors and the challenges democracies face in conducting free and fair elections. His work has been published and quoted in USA Today, The New York Times, The Washington Post, NPR, Bloomberg Technology, Electionline, The Hill, Business Insider, MIT Technology Review, BBC, EU Observer, and elsewhere.

David received a BA from Haverford College and a JD from the Case Western Reserve School of Law, where he discovered his passion for elections. Since then, he has administered elections, worked with civil society organizations to improve the election process, and observed elections in the United States and many other countries. 

A transcript for this episode can be found here.