Allan James Vestal, senior news applications developer at Politico, has been appointed election projects editor.
Previously, he was a computational journalist at The Dallas Morning News.
Vestal was previously a news application developer at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and was an intern and then a contributor on the data desk at the Los Angeles Times. He has also worked at Investigative Reporters and Editors.
Vestal graduated from the University of Missouri-Columbia, where he worked at the student paper.