The Federal Election Commission is asking for public input on its disclosure rules for online political advertisements, as companies like Facebook and Google are being scrutinized by investigators for ads they ran during the 2016 presidential campaign.Source: FEC asks for public comment on online ad disclosure rules...
Source: Watch Video of Ann Ravel, Brad Smith, and Rick Hasen Talking Election Law at Ninth Circuit Conference (in July)...
Cosmopolitan Magazine has this article by Mindy Finn, the vice-presidential nominee who ran in 2016 as an independent with Evan McMullin. The article doesn’t say much about her vice-presidential run, but instead focuses on the need for more woman candidates for important elected office.Source: Mindy Finn, Evan McMullin’s Running Mate, Has an Article in Cosmopolitan...
The U.S. Supreme Court considered whether to hear Minnesota Voters Alliance v Mansky at its October 6 conference, but when the results of that conference were revealed on October 10, the Court had not acted on that case. It will be considered again at a future conference.Source: U.S. Supreme Court Still Undecided on Whether to Hear Case on Political Clothing...
During oral argument in Gill v.Source: “Of Steak Rubs and Symmetry: A Response to Justice Gorsuch”...
The Supreme Court case of Gill v. Whitford was argued this past Tuesday and it is expected to be one of the biggest decisions of the Court’s new term. Gill v.Source: Podcast: The future of gerrymandering...
Brian Hancock of the U.S.Source: EAC’s Brian Hancock on “The Last Mile” in Election Security...
YouTube videos of police beatings on American streets. A widely circulated internet hoax about Muslim men in Michigan collecting welfare for multiple wives. A local news story about two veterans brutally mugged on a freezing winter night. All of these were recorded, posted or written by Americans.Source: How Russia Harvested American Rage to Reshape U.S. Politics...
American voting machines are full of foreign-made hardware and software, including from China, and a top group of hackers and national security officials says that means they could have been infiltrated last year and into the future.Source: Hacker study: Russia could get into U.S. voting machines...
SAN FRANCISCO — Google has found evidence that Russian agents bought ads on its wide-ranging networks in an effort to interfere with the 2016 presidential campaign.Source: Google Finds Accounts Connected to Russia Bought Election Ads...
