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...
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...
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...
Brian Hancock of the U.S.Source: EAC’s Brian Hancock on “The Last Mile” in Election Security...
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...
During oral argument in Gill v.Source: “Of Steak Rubs and Symmetry: A Response to Justice Gorsuch”...
There’s sometimes a fine line between good governance and trolling. One of this year’s most controversial—if not quite as consequential—state bills is a proposal by Democratic Sen.Source: ‘Show your taxes’—Could California really make presidential contenders do it?...
How should we react when businesses donate to nonprofits, think tanks, and social welfare organizations? Should we feel fear and disgust that Big Money is corrupting our democracy? Or should we be glad that Americans are able to hear the perspectives of the business community, and that civically-engaged organizations are finding patrons for their efforts?Source: The Left again tries to...
Douglas Goodman and Nevadans for Election Reform is hoping to qualify a Nevada ballot initiative for the 2020 election. It will abolish primaries, and use Ranked Choice Voting for the general election. Here is the web page.Source: Nevadans for Electoral Reform Hopes to Qualify Initiative for 2020 to Eliminate Primaries and Use Ranked Choice for the General Election...
The National Rifle Association donates millions of dollars every year to Republican lawmakers in Congress. And those same Republicans line up uniformly to block proposed gun control legislation.Source: The NRA is a powerful political force — but not because of its money...
