Author: Steven Rosenfeld
Slightly different variations of this problem have surfaced in Missouri and Arizona.
Seen narrowly, the relatively more mature Senate Intelligence Committee will hear from Facebook, Twitter and possibly Google executives on “social media companies’ responses to foreign influence campaigns.”
Some of those states have used Crosscheck’s analyses to turn a bland voter roll bookkeeping process (removing dead people, people who moved) into a partisan cudgel.
Unfortunately, the leader of a key organization in election protection and an important Democratic U.S. senator both took the wrong tack.
Both activities, hacking and propaganda, were features of Russian meddling in 2016, as the Senate Intelligence Committee noted in a recent bipartisan report.
Upset primary victor Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez could not have won without her sophisticated use of online tools to organize, communicate, motivate, and turn out voters.
The open question is whether legislators and election officials are looking to embrace newer technology, or whether they are drawn to more opaque systems that they have grown familiar with.
The system, which was instituted in 2010 and backed by then-Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, a Republican, was promoted as elevating more moderate candidates.
Facebook’s new political ad-buying rules are sabotaging grassroots candidates in June’s first primaries—and hurting ballot initiatives with upcoming filing deadlines—according to conservatives and progressives who say their campaigns are being suppressed.
Blankenship stands a thin chance of prevailing, which was unusual when it comes to the 47 states that have “sore loser” laws, election experts said.
Progressive Democrat Kara Eastman campaigned in Nebraska's congressional primary by emphasizing the personal side of the Bernie Sanders platform -- and last week she won.
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One of 2018’s most remarkable campaign stories is unfolding on the back roads and small-town squares of rural Texas, where Democratic Rep. Beto O’Rourke, a three-term congressman from El Paso, is within striking distance of ...
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