Covering 116,000 Candidates with Ballotpedia’s Doug Kronaizl
On this episode: Ballotpedia Managing Editor Doug Kronaizl joins Host Norm Leahy to go behind the scenes of Ballotpedia’s local election coverage, which spans about 55,000 elections and 116,000 candidates in 2026, a record for Ballotpedia. They discuss how the team tracks down candidate lists county by county, why some elections are run by law firms or neighbors with a landline, the unusual offices they’ve found along the way, from landowner elections to votes counted in dollars, and the plan to cover every elected office in all 50 states by 2028.
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