A Kremlin-linked firm spent at least six figures on political Facebook ads in the 2016 elections. But any Americans who may have lent a hand to the private company being called a “troll farm” with ties to Putin may be in the greatest legal jeopardy.Source: Russia’s Facebook Ads Could Spell Trouble for Any American Who Lent a Hand...
Virginia’s election supervisors on Friday directed counties to ditch touchscreen voting machines before November’s elections, saying the devices posed unacceptable digital risks.Source: Virginia bars voting machines considered top hacking target...
Care about freedom of the press? Support independent investigative journalism.Source: Will Donald Trump let the Federal Election Commission rot?...
Today Common Cause filed a complaint with the U.S.Source: For Immediate Release Russian Facebook Political Ad Buys During 2016 Election Draw DOJ & FEC Complaints...
Online attackers may be able to purchase - for as little as a few thousand dollars - enough personal information to potentially alter voter registration information in as many as 35 states and the District of Columbia, according to a new Harvard study.Source: Voting vulnerability: Study points to potential fraud in online voting registration systems...
Today, President Donald J. Trump announced that he has nominated sixteen individuals to the following Federal judgeships. If confirmed, Ryan Wesley Bounds of Oregon will serve as a Circuit Judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.Source: President Donald J. Trump Announces Seventh Wave of Judicial Candidates...
WASHINGTON — Breaking ranks with many of their fellow Republicans, a group of prominent politicians filed briefs on Tuesday urging the Supreme Court to rule that extreme political gerrymandering — the drawing of voting distrSource: Prominent Republicans Urge Supreme Court to End Gerrymandering...
During the past year appearances by controversial speakers on college campuses have led to a string of tense, sometimes violent, incidents.Source: A Free-Speech To-Do List for College Administrators...
WASHINGTON — Aides to Senator Kamala Harris of California say that her fund-raisers in Martha’s Vineyard and the Hamptons this summer have been all about helping Democrats in 2018. Former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr.Source: Long List of Top Democrats Have 2020, and Money, on Their Minds...
Democrats have been throttled by Republicans in the all-important battle for state legislative chambers the past decade. Now they're trying to turn the tide with the launch of a new super PAC.Source: Democrats launch super PAC to win back statehouses...
