Benjamin Swasey Ben Swasey is a senior editor on NPR's Washington Desk.
Ben Swasey is a senior editor on the Washington desk who leads NPR's coverage of voting and election administration.
In that role, he co-edited a 2023 investigation detailing how conservative pressure drove states to abandon a tool that helps catch voter fraud. That investigation was a finalist for the Peabody Award and the Toner Prize for Excellence in National Political Reporting.
He also edited campaign stories for the 2020, 2022 and 2024 election cycles.
Originally from Massachusetts, Swasey was previously a political editor and digital manager at WBUR in Boston. At WBUR he was an editor on teams that won two national RTDNA Edward R. Murrow Awards and an Online Journalism Award.
Tuesday March 18, 2025Former U.S. Agency for International Development employees terminated after the Trump administration effectively dismantled the agency collect their personal belongings at USAID headquarters on Feb. 27 in Washington, D.C. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images hide caption
toggle caption Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Wednesday November 6, 2024People wait in line to vote outside a polling station at the Dryland United Church of Christ in Nazareth, Pa., on Tuesday. Samuel Corum/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
toggle caption Samuel Corum/AFP via Getty ImagesBetting odds on Presidential election results are displayed on screens along The Strip, Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher) John Locher/AP/AP hide caption
toggle caption John Locher/AP/AP Tuesday November 5, 2024An election staffer works at the Fulton County Election Hub and Operation Center on Tuesday in Atlanta, Ga. John Bazemore/AP hide caption
toggle caption John Bazemore/APPeople cast ballots in Howell, Mich., on Sunday. Jeff Kowalsky/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
toggle caption Jeff Kowalsky/AFP via Getty Images Friday November 1, 2024A person holds the certificate of electoral votes from Pennsylvania during a joint session of Congress early on Jan. 7, 2021, as the counting of electoral votes resumed after the riot at the U.S. Capitol. Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
toggle caption Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images Wednesday September 25, 2024The Libertarian Party's Chase Oliver, seen here in 2022, appears on presidential ballots in seven key states. Ben Gray/AP hide caption
toggle caption Ben Gray/AP Tuesday September 17, 2024 Wednesday January 3, 2024Former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally on Dec. 16, 2023, in Durham, N.H. Reba Saldanha/AP hide caption
toggle caption Reba Saldanha/AP Thursday December 7, 2023Pro-Trump supporters storm the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Samuel Corum/Getty Images hide caption
toggle caption Samuel Corum/Getty Images Saturday September 2, 2023 Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images Tuesday November 8, 2022 Thursday September 15, 2022Election workers sort absentee ballots at the Lansing city clerk's office on Nov. 3, 2020, in Lansing, Mich. This fall, Michigan voters will weigh in on an expansive ballot question that would change the voting process. John Moore/Getty Images hide caption
toggle caption John Moore/Getty Images Friday August 5, 2022Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler, R-Wash., speaks during a hearing on June 4, 2020. Al Drago/Pool via AP hide caption
toggle caption Al Drago/Pool via AP Tuesday July 26, 2022Rep. Peter Meijer, R-Mich., speaks during a roundtable discussion at the Capitol on Aug. 30, 2021. J. Scott Applewhite/AP hide caption
toggle caption J. Scott Applewhite/AP Wednesday June 15, 2022Jim Marchant speaks at a Republican election night watch party on Nov. 3, 2020, in Las Vegas. John Locher/AP hide caption
toggle caption John Locher/AP Wednesday May 25, 2022Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (pictured) has beaten Rep. Jody Hice in the Republican primary for Georgia secretary of state. Alyssa Pointer for NPR hide caption
toggle caption Alyssa Pointer for NPR Tuesday March 29, 2022 Thursday March 10, 2022Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, who's expected to sign the legislation, had called for the formation of an election police force in a speech last year. John Raoux/AP hide caption
toggle caption John Raoux/AP Friday January 21, 2022The website COVIDTests.gov allows people to order four at-home tests per residence and have them delivered by mail. Now there's a phone number, too. Steven Senne/AP hide caption
toggle caption Steven Senne/APRetroSearch is an open source project built by @garambo | Open a GitHub Issue
Search and Browse the WWW like it's 1997 | Search results from DuckDuckGo
HTML:
3.2
| Encoding:
UTF-8
| Version:
0.7.3