NEW YORK (AP) — The Associated Press will have thousands of people on hand next week to count votes and declare winners and losers in the U.S. election, continuing a tradition that began in 1848.
There’s an even greater priority this year on explaining that process to outsiders.
The AP has already run a series of stories outlining how everything works, and has a team of reporters who will be assigned on election night to write in plain language why it is “calling” key individual states for presidential candidates Kamala Harris or Donald Trump.
Similar plans are afoot at other news organizations. At the AP, editors are mindful of political misinformation and
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