A leftist-linked group with policy priorities that overlap with Democrats’ pet issues is launching a project to coach political journalists on election coverage.
The Election Reformers Network (ERN) announced in an April press release it is joining forces with the Bridge Alliance to launch the Election Overtime Project, which aims to “prepare journalists and voters for ‘election overtime’ in battleground states.”
“Election Reformers Network and the Bridge Alliance have come together to create the Election Overtime Project to help reporters, journalists, TV anchors and others prepare America to understand and not fear close elections,” the release reads.
While it presents itself as “favoring neither the left nor the right,” the ERN’s policy preferences include typically leftist priorities like gutting the electoral college and taking away the discretionary power of election certification boards.
The group’s Election Overtime Project claims to offer “in-depth information” on things like “recounts, audits, and other procedures used to check results,” and “how courts judge election challenges.” Organizers pledge “to help journalists with the critical facts of close and contested elections.”
ERN Executive Director Kevin Johnson said participants in the project will include “political reporters for local, state, and national outlets” in print, broadcast, and online journalism, but would not tell The Federalist who specifically has received or will receive guidance through the project.
Johnson told The Federalist the program may help “indirectly” with “quote-unquote misinformation,” but it mainly aims to instruct journalists how to cover “election overtime” – close elections where the results may not be known for
