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Misinformation Overwhelms Local Election Officials

Quick, think about disinformation. What comes to mind? “Vladimir Putin, president of Russia.” But in 2020, many experts are more concerned with disinformation coming from our very own backyard. Like this guy, who, with a single tweet, disrupted a governor’s race in Kentucky. “Oh I’m just a broke college student, basically.” “He had 19 followers. […] More

by Tonya Frazier October 30, 2020, 5:20 am
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Pennsylvania AG Tells Trump And The Proud Boys He Won’t Let Them Steal The Election

Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro said on Thursday night that he will not put up with any attempts by Donald Trump or organizations like the Proud Boys to intimidate voters in his state. “We’ve been preparing for this moment for months,” Shapiro said during an interview with MSNBC’s Joy Reid. “We will not let any […] More

by Tonya Frazier October 30, 2020, 1:32 am
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As Election Day Nears, Trump’s EPA Chief Gives Georgia Cotton Farmers the Gift of a Nasty Pesticide – Mother Jones

Young cotton plants get a dose of pesticide. Balefire9/iStock / Getty Images Plus For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter. The Georgia electorate has swung to Republican candidates in every presidential election since 1996; but this year, Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden has edged […] More

by Tonya Frazier October 29, 2020, 8:16 pm
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Kavanaugh Fixes Error in Election Opinion After Vermont Complaint

Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh on Wednesday corrected an error in an opinion issued as part of a Supreme Court ruling that barred Wisconsin from counting mail-in ballots that arrive after Election Day. Though not unheard-of, such revisions are rare, experts said, adding that Justice Kavanaugh’s change highlighted the court’s fast pace in handling recent challenges […] More

by Tonya Frazier October 29, 2020, 5:51 pm
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How coronavirus and the election are affecting our optimism

It’s hard to remember now, but 2020 — a year, a meme, an interminable parade of grief — opened with a sense of cautious optimism. US unemployment was at a record low and consumer confidence was high. Hollywood had just invested almost $2 billion in a “revolutionary” new streaming platform called Quibi; Future and Drake’s […] More

by Tonya Frazier October 29, 2020, 3:20 pm
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Dating Before the Presidential Election: There’s Only One Thing to Talk About

On OkCupid, a dating site known for lengthy questionnaires that help people pin down potential partners, politics has become the most popular category. More than 1.2 million people who use OkCupid said they prefer to date people who share their political views. Women were more likely to say so than men. The platform recently began […] More

by Tonya Frazier October 29, 2020, 3:09 pm
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Young Latinx voters could be the ones who finally flip Arizona in the 2020 election

This is the third in a series of stories looking at the people who could cast the most decisive votes in the 2020 election. You can read Ella Nilsen’s story on suburban women here and Dylan Scott’s story on Rust Belt workers here. Kassandra Alvarez remembers the anxiety she felt growing up in Arizona. Alvarez, […] More

by Tonya Frazier October 29, 2020, 1:40 pm
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A Calvinesque and Hobbesian look at the election

The two Tom the Dancing Bug books, Tom the Dancing Bug: Into the Trumpverse, and The Super-Fun-Pak Comix Reader, are now available. Information about the books, including how to order, and special offers here. “Like a warm pet that leaps and rolls over before delivering a satiric bite.”-The Washington Post, on Tom the Dancing Bug […] More

by Tonya Frazier October 29, 2020, 12:00 pm
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How Trump could win the 2020 election and the Electoral College

President Donald Trump is polling significantly worse than he was at this point in 2016, both nationally and in key states. His chances of victory in the FiveThirtyEight forecast model (11 percent) are lower than they ended up last time (28 percent), as of October 28. But those chances aren’t zero. So what would it […] More

by Tonya Frazier October 29, 2020, 12:00 pm
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Supreme Court to Let PA, NC Accept Absentee Ballots After Election Day

WASHINGTON — In a pair of decisions welcomed by Democrats, the Supreme Court on Wednesday at least temporarily let election officials in two key battleground states, Pennsylvania and North Carolina, accept absentee ballots for several days after Election Day. In the Pennsylvania case, the court refused a plea from Pennsylvania Republicans that it decide before […] More

by Tonya Frazier October 29, 2020, 1:07 am
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in Absentee Voting, Cyberattacks and Hackers, Cyberwarfare and Defense, Elections, Federal Security Service, Homeland Security Department, Microsoft Corp, News, Presidential Election of 2020, Russian Interference in 2016 US Elections and Ties to Trump Associates, United States Cyber Command, United States Politics and Government, Voter Fraud (Election Fraud), Voter Registration and Requirements

‘Perception Hacks’ and Other Potential Threats to the Election

In Georgia, a database that verifies voter signatures was locked up by Russian hackers in a ransomware attack that also dumped voters’ registration data online. In California and Indiana, Russia’s most formidable state hackers, a unit linked to the Federal Security Service, or F.S.B., bored into local networks and hit some election systems, though it […] More

by Tonya Frazier October 29, 2020, 12:58 am
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Days From Election, Police Killing of Black Man Roils Philadelphia

PHILADELPHIA — There is a grim familiarity to it all. In the final days of a bitter election, it is a reprise of the terrible images that the country has come to know all too well this year: The shaky cellphone video, the abrupt death of a Black man at the hands of the police. […] More

by Tonya Frazier October 28, 2020, 11:50 pm

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Pennsylvania AG Tells Trump And The Proud Boys He Won’t Let Them Steal The Election

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