On the eve of Election Day, even the most apolitical people have probably seen their social media feeds taken over by voter-turnout enthusiasm.Source: Is It Legal to Take a Selfie with Your Ballot?...
Facebook has unveiled its new election war room designed to assist employees with finding and deleting fake news and bogus accounts aimed at interfering with elections. (Oct. 18) APSource: Facebook discloses possible election meddling by Russia, foreign actors on eve of midterms...
The companies acted under threats of federal regulation after reports that Russian operatives bought politically divisive social media ads under fake names.Source: Facebook, Google and Twitter shine light on campaign ads — but only so far...
An Arizona man pleaded guilty in a federal court in Manhattan Friday to creating six PACs and misrepresenting their activities to potential donors, resulting in tens of thousands of donors being defrauded.Source: Arizona man pleads guilty to using scam PACs to defraud donors...
Much has been made recently about the good deed being offered by two of America’s most popular ridesharing services. Uber and Lyft have both announced that they are going to give voters in the midterm elections rides to the polls on Tuesday, November 6.Source: Ostensibly To Avoid Laws Against Vote Buying, Lyft and Uber Offer Only One-Way Free Transportation to the Polls...
The Supreme Court refused Friday to delay an upcoming trial in which a number of states and civil rights organizations allege there was an improper political motive in Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross’s decision to add a citizenship question to the 2020 Census.Source: Supreme Court allows trial on census citizenship question to go forward...
Much has been made recently about the good deed being offered by two of America’s most popular ridesharing services. Uber and Lyft have both announced that they are going to give voters in the midterm elections rides to the polls on Tuesday, November 6.Source: Uber & Lyft are offering free rides to the polls — but here’s what they don’t tell...
The 2018 cycle is "going to be the most secure election we've ever had," DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said today, just days before the midterms, but she is worried about a "dynamic threat" that could include foreign attempts to portray the results as invalid afterward.Source: DHS secretary on midterms: 'Most secure election we’ve ever had'...
In a decision likely affecting thousands of voters, a 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel determined that those purged from the rolls between 2011 and 2015 will be eligible to vote as long as they live in the same county where they were last registered. Anyone who re-registered before Oct.Source: Appeals Court Orders Ohio To Count Purged Voters' Ballots...
Every two years, citizens across the U.S. manage to place some eye-catching measures on state election ballots, posing questions to voters that can be divisive and sometimes historic. But more than half of states offer no such opportunity.Source: US states split on allowing citizen ballot initiatives...
