July 28, 2018 - Legally Political

28 Jul Hacking California’s Election System Would Be Difficult, Not Impossible, Experts Say

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(TNS) — Although California has received an “all-clear” from government agencies looking into Russian attempts to hack into voting data for states across the nation, safe today doesn’t mean safe tomorrow, a leading computer security expert warned.Source: Hacking California’s Election System Would Be Difficult, Not...

28 Jul Is Lying About an Election Free Speech or Fraud?

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In the weeks before the 2016 election, memes proliferated on Twitter bearing instructions on how to vote by phone or text message. The images were stylized to resemble Hillary Clinton’s campaign materials, and targeted her supporters in both English and Spanish. “Save time. Avoid the...

28 Jul Liberal activists embrace ‘dark money’ in Supreme Court fight

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Liberal activists, who were dramatically outspent in their last fight to fend off President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, are embracing a tactic that has been a mainstay of the conservative political playbook: tapping a war chest financed by unidentified donors to try to influence judicial...

28 Jul Documentary ‘Dark Money’ is close to a political thriller

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The making of Kimberly Reed’s documentary “Dark Money” was prompted by the 2010 United States Supreme Court Citizens United decision allowing unlimited corporate spending in election campaigns if it is done apart from a candidate or party.Source: Documentary ‘Dark Money’ is close to a political...

28 Jul Voter system glitch let 11,000 non-citizens register in Pennsylvania

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More than 11,000 non-citizens who weren’t eligible to register to vote in Pennsylvania since the mid-1990s inadvertently registered because of an oversight in the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation’s motor-voter system, a State Department analysis revealed.Source: Voter system glitch let 11,000 non-citizens register in Pennsylvania...