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Upcoming #AFRINIC "Behind the Ballot: Navigating the AFRINIC Election Process" Webinar 2025-07-23 https://afrinic.net/election-2025-webinar-1

Louisiana’s Chief Election Official Confirms Lack of Widespread Noncitizen Voting | Brennan Center for Justice
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/louisianas-chief-election-official-confirms-lack-widespread-noncitizen

'Japanese First' party emerges as election force with tough immigration talk (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/japanese-first-party-emerges-election-force-with-tough-immigration-talk-2025-07-20/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250720/p48#a250720p48

It's only Tuesday so stay ahead of the curve by checking out today's Metacurity for the most critical infosec developments you should know, including
--Three Chinese threat groups exploited SharePoint flaws, Microsoft,
--Businesses will have to report ransom payments in UK,
--AZ election officials blast CISA after Iran site defacement,
--Dutch public prosecutors disconnected after suspected hack,
--SoCal engineer pleads guilty to missile-related blueprint…

Three Chinese threat groups exploited SharePoint flaws, Microsoft
Businesses will have to report ransom payments in UK, AZ election officials blast CISA after Iran site defacement, Dutch public prosecutors disconnected after suspected hack, SoCal engineer pleads guilty to missile-related blueprints theft, Aussie body sues Fortnum for client data theft, much more

A senior CIA officer who oversaw Russia analysis
has been stripped of her security clearance,
part of a sweeping removal of
37 serving and former officials accused of "betray[ing] their oath to the Constitution," the Economist reported on Aug. 21.
The officer, who served as the CIA’s top Russia and Eurasia analyst during the 2016 election
and helped produce the report detailing Moscow’s interference on behalf of Donald Trump,
was among the most s…

Trump administration escalates purge of senior US intelligence officials, Economist reports
The officer, who served as the CIA’s top Russia and Eurasia analyst during the 2016 election and helped produce the report detailing Moscow’s interference on behalf of Donald Trump, was among the most senior career officials targeted.

Well, that sucks.
Oh well, he still has to face a leadership convention. His chances are better having won the by-election, but there's still a chance he loses.
https://mastodon.hongkongers.net/@glcalgary_mirror/115064682942073821

Global News Calgary (@glcalgary_mirror@mastodon.hongkongers.net)
Attached: 1 image Poilievre wins Alberta byelection, securing return to House of Commons Battle River—Crowfoot was left vacant when Conservative Damien Kurek stepped down to make way for his party's leader, Pierre Poilievre, to run for a seat. #politics #election #Alberta #BattleRiverCrowfoot #Canada #canadaelection https://globalnews.ca/news/11339007/battle-river-crowfood-byelection-voting-day-pierre-poilievre/

Filing: Newsmax agreed to pay Dominion Voting Systems $67M to settle a defamation lawsuit over false claims about the 2020 election, with $27M due this month (CNN)
http://www.cnn.com/2025/08/18/media/newsmax-dominion-settle-2020-election-defamatio…

Newsmax will pay $67 million to settle Dominion lawsuit over network’s 2020 election lies
Egregious lies about the 2020 presidential election are going to cost Newsmax millions.

polbooks: Political books network (2004)
A network of books about U.S. politics published close to the 2004 U.S. presidential election, and sold by Amazon.com. Edges between books represent frequent copurchasing of those books by the same buyers. The network was compiled by V. Krebs and is unpublished.
This network has 105 nodes and 441 edges.
Tags: Informational, Relatedness, Unweighted, Metadata

Dynatune: Dynamic Tuning of Raft Election Parameters Using Network Measurement
Kohya Shiozaki, Junya Nakamura
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15154 https://

Dynatune: Dynamic Tuning of Raft Election Parameters Using Network Measurement
Raft is a leader-based consensus algorithm that implements State Machine Replication (SMR), which replicates the service state across multiple servers to enhance fault tolerance. In Raft, the servers play one of three roles: leader, follower, or candidate. The leader receives client requests, determines the processing order, and replicates them to the followers. When the leader fails, the service must elect a new leader to continue processing requests, during which the service experiences an ou…

Trump administration escalates purge of senior US intelligence officials, Economist reports: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/22/trump-administration-escalates-purge-of.html

Are you a head of state who doesn't want to release the evidence that you are a sexual predator? Try Throwshitatthewall, by Pfizer!
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/18/tulsi-gabbard-obama-2016-election-russia

I ought to send you all a Gist this weekend, but I am also two weeks behind on my email, flattened from Covid convalescence and am meant to co-write a proper academic thingy about data stuff.
Can we all agree I will do a funny one about the Presidential election next week instead?

🪑 Single-seat districts hold promise of success in Upper House election
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/09/japan/politics/upper-house-election-single-seat-districts/
🆓

Single-seat districts hold promise of success in Upper House election
Both the ruling and opposition parties are directing a large part of their election campaign efforts to seats in such constituencies.

The only real action I've seen taken to fight back the absolute distortion of the American election landscape.
From: @…
https://mastodon.social/@RonSupportsYo…

Yes, There's Evidence Trump Hacked the 2024 Election - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kNAbMuSB0c&ab_channel=ScottCarney

Republicans can't stop talking about Joe Biden. That may be a problem (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/republican-biden-election-democrat-midterm-78b6e3998772b987625abbbc9bebf3d0
http://www.memeorandum.com/250721/p52#a250721p52

You wait for the elections to roll around, even though things are urgent. You vote, then you wait to see who is elected, then you wait for them to come into office, then you hope that they will pass the laws that you want. If things don’t work out, you wait for the next election, and repeat the process.
#Anarchism

Properties of Egalitarian Sequences of Committees: Theory and Experiments
Paula B\"ohm, Robert Bredereck, Till Fluschnik
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14439 https://

Properties of Egalitarian Sequences of Committees: Theory and Experiments
We study the task of electing egalitarian sequences of $τ$ committees given a set of agents with additive utilities for candidates available on each of $τ$ levels. We introduce several rules for electing an egalitarian committee sequence as well as properties for such rules. We settle the computational complexity of finding a winning sequence for our rules and classify them against our properties. Additionally, we transform sequential election data from existing election data from the literat…

Ryan Walters’ Plan To Teach OK Students Election And COVID Conspiracies Put On Hold By State Supreme Court | Techdirt
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/09/19/ryan-walters-plan-to-teach-ok-students-election-and-covid-conspiracies-put-on-hold-by-state-supreme-court/

Sad Day Of "Reckon Uh" For Bullish Rube #Investors That Went Long On #Melania #MemeCoin As Value Has Sunk 98% Since Election Day, Down To Approx 25 cents from a high near $10.

Good electoral reforms. But it's VERY disappointing that Labour clings to first-past-the-post. Not only does FPTP make no sense when there are more than 2 parties, but, most importantly, change to PR could be the only way to prevent a far-right majority in 2029. Wake up!
https:…

16 year olds to be given right to vote through seismic government election reforms
Sixteen year olds will be given the right to vote in all UK elections as part of seismic changes to modernise UK democracy

polblogs: Political blogs network (2004)
A directed network of hyperlinks among a large set of U.S. political weblogs from before the 2004 election. Includes blog political affiliation as metadata.
This network has 1490 nodes and 19090 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.d…

Pennsylvania voters ignore November's state Supreme Court election at their own peril.
Find out why:
https://bsky.app/profile/buckscountybeacon.com/post/3luaztcxxx22t

Ukraine claims cyberattacks on Russian election systems; Moscow confirms disruptions
https://therecord.media/ukraine-claims-ddos-attack-russian-election-system

Ukraine claims cyberattacks on Russian election systems; Moscow confirms disruptions
Ukraine said it was responsible for disrupting websites related to Russian election infrastructure as voters went to the polls in occupied territories.

US destabilisation as #Honduras gears up for election battle | Morning Star
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/honduras-gears-election-battle

Hey liberals, I'll make you a deal. I'll vote, if you do something actually useful.
Fun fact, I've already voted in every election I've been eligible to vote in. So you're gonna organize to feed houseless folks in your area, protect trans folks, run ICE out of your neighborhood, film the police every time you see them....
No one ever voted fascists out of office, but we do know how to stop them. Make it impossible for them to govern. That's the trick. So maybe we can spend a little less time fighting straw men and a little more time being ungovernable.
Cool, glad we're on the same page.

Speculative politics
As an anarchist (okay, maybe not in practice), I'm tired of hearing why we have to suffer X and Y indignity to "preserve the rule of law" or "maintain Democratic norms." So here's an example of what representative democracy (a form of government that I believe is inherently flawed) could look like if its proponents had even an ounce of imagination, and/or weren't actively trying to rig it to favor a rich donor class:
1. Unicameral legislature, where representatives pass laws directly. Each state elects 3 statewide representatives: the three most-popular candidates in a statewide race where each person votes for one candidate (ranked preference voting would be even better but might not be necessary, and is not a solution by itself). Instead of each representative getting one vote in the chamber, they get N votes, where N is the number of people who voted for them. This means that in a close race, instead of the winner getting all the power, the power is split. Having 3 representatives trades off between leisure size and ensuring that two parties can't dominate together.
2. Any individual citizen can contact their local election office to switch or withdraw their vote at any time (maybe with a 3-day delay or something). Voting power of representatives can thus shift even without an election. They are limited to choosing one of the three elected representatives, or "none of the above." If the "none of the above" fraction exceeds 20% of eligible voters, a new election is triggered for that state. If turnout is less than 80%, a second election happens immediately, with results being final even at lower turnout until 6 months later (some better mechanism for turnout management might be needed).
3. All elections allow mail-in ballots, and in-person voting happens Sunday-Tuesday with the Monday being a mandatory holiday. (Yes, election integrity is not better in this system and that's a big weakness.)
4. Separate nationwide elections elect three positions for head-of-state: one with diplomatic/administrative powers, another with military powers, and a third with veto power. For each position, the top three candidates serve together, with only the first-place winner having actual power until vote switches or withdrawals change who that is. Once one of these heads loses their first-place status, they cannot get it again until another election, even if voters switch preferences back (to avoid dithering). An election for one of these positions is triggered when 20% have withdrawn their votes, or if all three people initially elected have been disqualified by losing their lead in the vote count.
5. Laws that involve spending money are packaged with specific taxes to pay for them, and may only be paid for by those specific revenues. Each tax may be opted into or out of by each taxpayer; where possible opting out of the tax also opts you out of the service. (I'm well aware of a lot of the drawbacks of this, but also feel like they'd not necessarily be worse than the drawbacks of our current system.) A small mandatory tax would cover election expenses.
6. I'm running out of attention, but similar multi-winner elections could elect panels of judges from which a subset is chosen randomly to preside in each case.
Now I'll point out once again that this system, in not directly confronting capitalism, racism, patriarchy, etc., is probably doomed to the same failures as our current system. But if you profess to want a "representative democracy" as opposed to something more libratory, I hope you'll at least advocate for something like this that actually includes meaningful representation as opposed to the current US system that's engineered to quash it.
Key questions: "Why should we have winner-take-all elections when winners-take-proportionately-to-votes is right there?" and "Why should elected officials get to ignore their constituents' approval except during elections, when vote-withdrawal or -switching is possible?"
2/2
#Democracy

Election security advice from Putin (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/national-security-daily/2025/08/19/election-security-advice-from-putin-00515121
http://www.memeorandum.com/250819/p141#a250819p141

I finished casting my ballot for the #OpenStreetMap Foundation Board election! (There are about 5 hours left before the deadline.) And because there are only 4 candidates for 3 open seats and 2 candidates are for reelection, ranking them was a lot simpler this year.

https://rudhar.com/politics/election/2rnd3prt/en08.htm

Ukraine claims cyberattacks on Russian election systems; Moscow confirms disruptions https://therecord.media/ukraine-claims-ddos-attack-russian-election-system

Trump started the verbal war with Canada shortly after the 2024 election.
He invited Prime Minister Trudeau to dine with him at Mar-a-Lago on November 29.
Trump said then that Canada should be the fifty-first state and that Trudeau should be its governor. (Later, Trump switched to Gretzky.)
“I look forward to seeing the governor again soon so that we may continue our in depth talks on tariffs and trade,” Trump posted on social media.
To this, Trudeau responded:
…

The New Detroit-Windsor Bridge Can’t Repair the Damage Trump Has Done
The opening of the Gordie Howe bridge has been delayed. It’s an apt metaphor for where U.S.-Canada relations have gone under Trump 2.0.

Would that #SFMTA, #MayorLurie and the #SFBOS paid attention to information like this and moved to develop an integrated plan.
What we have is BOS Resolution ( and I appreciate the efforts of

Would that #SFMTA, #MayorLurie and the #SFBOS paid attention to information like this and moved to develop an integrated plan.
What we have is BOS Resolution ( and I appreciate the efforts of

safe to say Joel Engardio is being recalled. he's down 30 points in the first drop
@…'s map also shows the 3 precincts added to the district in 2022 which allowed him to run (he lives in one of them), and which accounted for his margin of victory over Gordon Mar, voting most strongly to recall him. wild!

Timeline of Lloyd Howell's tenure as NFLPA executive director from election to resignation https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6502042/2025/07/18/nfl-nflpa-lloyd-howell-executive-director-resigns/

If the birthday card had come out before the election, it would have had little effect.
Six months into Trump's term, Epstein is the vehicle onto which MAGA has loaded its repressed disillusionment with the regime's plutocracy, corruption & brutality.

😕 Why late surges in election results fuel fraud suspicions among voters
#elections

Why late surges in election results fuel fraud suspicions among voters
Once an electoral candidate is in the lead, the public views them as the winner. If the candidate then loses, fraud seems a likely explanation, and even the winner's supporters might be inclined to be suspicious about the final result. This is because of the cumulative redundancy bias (CRB).

Not how we typically court the electorate, dude
Eric Adams says many Gen Z voters who back his NYC mayoral rival Mamdani are ‘nasty, radicalized and hate our country’ | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/eric-adams-new-york-election-mamdani-b2830456.html

Across the Northeast this month, states will mark the complicated history of anointing a singular Black leader to represent their community,
-- a settler colonial tradition that persists today
Negro Election Day,
or Negroes Hallowday,
dates back to 1639 in Massachusetts,
making it the the earliest known Black voting system in the United States.
The day was celebrated throughout the Northeast to mark the day that African people elected a “king” or “governo…

Negro Election Day may seem like ancient history, but it remains as prescient as ever
Across the Northeast this July, states will mark the complicated history of anointing a singular Black leader to represent their community

President sundowning-at-1-pm was asked for his license plate to vote?
Did he mean a valet in 1993 asked for his plate? Because no American politcal election in almost 250 years has asked anyone for their license plate.
#USpol

To whom did my vote go?
Andrew Conway, Michelle Blom, Alexander Ek, Peter Stuckey, Vanessa Teague, Damjan Vukcevic
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13370 https://

To whom did my vote go?
Single Transferable Vote (STV) counting, used in several jurisdictions in Australia, is a system for choosing multiple election winners given voters' preferences among candidates. The system is complex and it is not always obvious how an individual's vote contributes to candidates' tallies across rounds of tabulation. This short paper presents a demonstration system that allows voters to enter an example vote in a past Australian STV election, and see: (i)~how that vote would have been transfer…

Mother Jones gets this right. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/09/charlie-kirk-legacy-ezra-klein-2020-election-trump-turning-point/
«Kirk’s advocacy of vigorous debate ought not be separated from wh…

No, Charlie Kirk was not practicing politics the right way
His assassination deserves full condemnation; his full impact should not be sidestepped.

Ça s'enligne bien pour garder le Parti Conservateur en dehors de l'Assemblée Nationale
Débandade totale des autres partis
https://www.electionsquebec.qc.ca/resultats-et-statistiques/resultats-election-pa…

Unredacted court docs in Smartmatic's Fox News lawsuit show how Maria Bartiromo and other Fox hosts privately aided Trump's bid to overturn the 2020 US election (Isabella Simonetti/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/smartma

Vance's and Marco Rubio's Senate successors avoid GOP primary drama (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2026-election/vances-marco-rubios-senate-successors-avoid-gop-primary-drama-rcna219679
http://www.memeorandum.com/250721/p4#a250721p4

Meta will end political, election, or social issue ads in the EU from October, like Google, with both citing incoming regulation (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/07/25/meta-eu-political-election-ads

Meta will no longer accept political, election or issue ads in EU
Meta's decision comes ahead of regulation it says will cause "significant operational challenges and legal uncertainties."

The Role of Follow Networks and Twitter's Content Recommender on Partisan Skew and Rumor Exposure during the 2022 U.S. Midterm Election
Kayla Duskin, Joseph S. Schafer, Alexandros Efstratiou, Jevin D. West, Emma S. Spiro
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09826

The Role of Follow Networks and Twitter's Content Recommender on Partisan Skew and Rumor Exposure during the 2022 U.S. Midterm Election
Social media platforms shape users' experiences through the algorithmic systems they deploy. In this study, we examine to what extent Twitter's content recommender, in conjunction with a user's social network, impacts the topic, political skew, and reliability of information served on the platform during a high-stakes election. We utilize automated accounts to document Twitter's algorithmically curated and reverse chronological timelines throughout the U.S. 2022 midterm election. We find that t…

Hey it's lunchtime so I spent a few minutes making a new graphic!
#USPOL

Officials in a large North Texas county decided this week to cut more than 100 Election Day polling sites -- and reduce the number of early voting locations,
amid growing concern about GOP efforts to limit voting access ahead of next year’s midterm elections.
The 3-2 vote on Tuesday by commissioners in Tarrant County, 💥which includes Fort Worth,
came one day after Donald Trump vowed to end the use of mail-in ballots.
The president lacks the unilateral power to decid…

A Texas County Cuts Over 100 Polling Sites as Trump Attacks Mail-In Voting Nationally
The decision by commissioners in Tarrant County, which includes Fort Worth, comes amid growing concern about GOP efforts to limit voting access ahead of next year’s midterm elections.

DoJ says voting machine maker funneled LA county money into slush funds used to pay bribes
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/20/smartmatic-voting-machines-bribery

A crowded race for governor has turned into an all-out fight over Trump's endorsement (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2026-election/crowded-race-governor-turned-fight-trumps-endorsement-rcna226030
http://www.memeorandum.com/250822/p58#a250822p58

Norway Labour now dependent on Left-Green bloc.
Norway’s Election Opens Door to More Restrictive Oil and Gas Policies - Oil Change International
https://oilchange.org/news/norways-election-opens-door-to-more-restrictive-oil-and-gas-polici…

Norway’s Election Opens Door to More Restrictive Oil and Gas Policies - Oil Change International
Oslo, Norway – The Norwegian election is a turning point for climate and energy policy. With a Labour-led government strengthened by the Green Party (MDG) crossing the parliamentary threshold of 4%

The FBI reportedly recorded Donald Trump’s border czar -- Tom Homan -- accepting $50,000 in cash from undercover agents who were posing as business contractors last year.
A new report from MSNBC on Saturday reveals that the agents recorded Homan, six weeks before the 2024 election,
allegedly promising to assist in securing government contracts across the border security industry during Trump’s second term.
Six sources familiar with the matter told MSNBC that the FBIand just…

📣 Sanseito touts 'Japanese First' rhetoric to gain support
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/01/japan/politics/sanseito-upper-house-election/
🆓

Sanseito touts 'Japanese First' rhetoric to gain support
Some observers say conservative voters who left the Democratic Party for the People are turning to the fledgling opposition party by default.

Election deniers now hold posts on local US election boards, raising concerns for midterms | US politics | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/15/election-deniers-midterms-board-offices

Documents Add Detail to Fox Hosts' Desire to Help Trump (Katie Robertson/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/business/media/fox-news-trump-election-documents.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250820/p6#a250820p6

Newly unredacted documents in the Smartmatic-Fox News defamation case show former host Jeanine Pirro, now a US attorney, bragging about aiding Trump and the GOP (Jeremy Barr/Washington Post)

Jeanine Pirro bragged about helping Trump and GOP while a Fox News host
The former Fox host complained of “CENSORSHIP” by Fox over her coverage of the 2020 election, according to newly unredacted documents in the Smartmatic defamation case.

We just put up billboards demanding an explanation on why our MAGA opponent voted to hide the list. -- Yes, that list.
It's Esther Kim Varet:
I promised you a Democrat who's a fighter, and who demands accountability,
because that is the only way we win California's most flippable congressional district.
We are not letting Young Kim get away with 𝗮𝗻𝘆𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 between now and election day,
because we know the voters WILL remove her.
I'm not let…

I'm with Esther Kim Varet
Show your support with a contribution.

Apparently the NixOS EC closed all questions posted by @… without further explanation, which I only saw because I already answered some of them. It took me a bit to realize this is because only eligible voters are allowed to ask questions for the NixOS SC election. Unfortunate as I think they were valid and valuable.

Good to see at least some politicians realizing that you need to provide solutions that the voters need, not policies that the big donors like, the policies shaped by years of mindless repetition of Milton Friedman's failed economic hypotheses, policies based on "everyone knows - it's common sense" rather than actually looking at what works and what doesn't.
(And Friedman's nonsense has been a mantra since the 1970s, so everyone has heard the nonsense pre…

Good to see at least some politicians realizing that you need to provide solutions that the voters need, not policies that the big donors like, the policies shaped by years of mindless repetition of Milton Friedman's failed economic hypotheses, policies based on "everyone knows - it's common sense" rather than actually looking at what works and what doesn't.
(And Friedman's nonsense has been a mantra since the 1970s, so everyone has heard the nonsense pre…

I’m thinking a protest sign that just says:
TRUMP
EPSTEIN
It could be in the style of a yard sign for the election.
#USPOL

'Pound sand': Arizona election chief hits back at Trump's voting threats - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/adrian-fontes-2673901970/

Moldova's EU future rests on September election, President Sandu says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/05/moldovas-eu-future-rests-on.html

Trump vows to target mail-in ballots ahead of 2026 midterm election (Jarrett Renshaw/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-vows-target-mail-in-ballots-ahead-2026-midterm-election-2025-08-18/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250818/p67#a250818p67

Newsmax pays $67 million to settle defamation case linked to 2020 election coverage (Maddy Lauria/NPR)
https://www.npr.org/2025/08/18/nx-s1-5506062/newsmax-pays-67-million-to-settle-defamation-case-linked-to-2020-election-coverage
http://www.memeorandum.com/250818/p60#a250818p60

polblogs: Political blogs network (2004)
A directed network of hyperlinks among a large set of U.S. political weblogs from before the 2004 election. Includes blog political affiliation as metadata.
This network has 1490 nodes and 19090 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.d…

Newsmax says its 2020 election coverage was "fair" but it settled with Dominion as the Delaware court where the trial was to happen wouldn't allow a fair trial (Newsmax)
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/newsmax-settlement-dominion/2025/08/1…

Sherrod Brown's Race Will Test Trump Voters' Buyer's Remorse (Alex Roarty/NOTUS)
https://www.notus.org/2024-election/sherrod-brown-ohio-test-trump-voters-buyers-remorse
http://www.memeorandum.com/250818/p146#a250818p146

Trump’s DOJ seeks election equipment in red state ahead of 2026 election
https://wapo.st/4mP2pfc

Trump’s DOJ seeks voting equipment in Missouri ahead of 2026 election
The unusual request for equipment used by two Republican clerks in the 2020 election comes after Trump said he would lead a movement to get rid of voting machines.

🙈 Political parties mostly ignore existing economic inequality, large-scale analysis finds
https://phys.org/news/2025-08-political-parties-economic-inequality-large.html

Political parties mostly ignore existing economic inequality, large-scale analysis finds
Growing dissatisfaction among the population, loss of trust in politics, increase in crime and violence: Economic inequality leads to a variety of social consequences. Nevertheless, the issue plays a much smaller role in the election manifestos of political parties both in Germany and in other countries than researchers had previously assumed. These are the results of a current study by the Cluster of Excellence The Politics of Inequality at the University of Konstanz, recently published in the…

The president posted a furious rant on Truth Social Tuesday, saying that any of his followers who were interested in the Epstein case were falling for Democratic “bullshit,”
and compared it to the “totally fake and made up story used in order to hide Crooked Hillary Clinton’s big loss in the 2016 Presidential Election.”
Similarly to Russia’s interference in the 2016 election, Trump now claims that Epstein files are a “hoax.”
Unfortunately for Trump, Americans don’t care abou…

Panicked Trump Rushes to Create a Distraction From Epstein Files
Donald Trump is throwing everything at the wall and hoping something sticks.

Gabbard threatens prosecution against Obama administration officials for 'treasonous conspiracy' (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/18/tulsi-gabbard-2016-election-investigation-00463779
http://www.memeorandum.com/250718/p128#a250718p128

DOJ’s new lawsuit seems to show DOJ is violating federal law - Election Law Blog
https://electionlawblog.org/?p=152107

Right-wing Americans have done much to fund cultural products that are not necessarily political but have deep political undertones.
Over the decades, Republicans have invested billions of dollars in selling their larger values and political brand while Democrats seem to think that a barrage of easily ignored video ads can counteract it.
This is a serious issue for Democrats because Donald Trump's 2024 election victory was largely thanks to people who had never voted before …

An Account Using the Same Name as Trump's BLS Pick Posted Red-Pilled Conspiracy Theories (David Gilbert/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/twitter-ej-antoni-trump-bls-conspiracy-theories-epstein-covid-election-denial/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250818/p124#a250818p124

Election to fill assassinated Minnesota House member's seat will decide control of the chamber (Steve Karnowski/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/minnesota-legislature-special-election-melissa-hortman-712d68209d59dfffc3c57421f095b437
http://www.memeorandum.com/250916/p176#a250916p176

'Hard stop for me': GOP clerks buck Trump’s 'power grab' demand for voter 'inspections' - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/trump-election-clerks/

Democrat wins special election for seat held by slain Minnesota lawmaker Melissa Hortman (Adam Edelman/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/democrat-wins-special-election-seat-held-slain-minnesota-lawmaker-rcna231458
http://www.memeorandum.com/250916/p173#a250916p173

Republicans are planning to rig the election in order to keep the House. Again!
"I need people of color to understand that the scheme of the Republicans has consistently been to make sure that they mute our voices.” - @repjasmine.bsky.social
https://bsky.app/profile/cwebbonline.c

Oklahoma court stops social studies standards with 2020 election misinformation from taking effect (Sean Murphy/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/oklahoma-standards-election-misinformation-ryan-walters-bd2f5336aeada1b3b9f353c0b9e048a9
http://www.memeorandum.com/250916/p151#a250916p151

An election law expert weighs in on Trump's effort to reshape our democracy : NPR
https://www.npr.org/2025/09/10/nx-s1-5536528/an-election-law-expert-weighs-in-on-trumps-effort-to-reshape-our-democracy

Trump’s DOJ seeks voting equipment in Missouri ahead of 2026 election

A top official in Trump’s Justice Department recently sought access to voting equipment used by two Republican clerks in Missouri during the 2020 election
-- an unusual request from federal officials amid continued efforts by the president to malign the integrity of the nation’s voting systems.

Trump’s DOJ seeks voting equipment in Missouri ahead of 2026 election
The unusual request for equipment used by two Republican clerks in the 2020 election comes after Trump said he would lead a movement to get rid of voting machines.

She Pushed to Overturn Trump’s Loss in the 2020 Election. Now She’ll Help Oversee U.S. Election Security. — ProPublica
https://www.propublica.org/article/heather-honey-dhs-election-security

Firing Back at Texas Redistricting, Newsom Calls Special Election to Authorize California Countermove (Jen Rice/Democracy Docket)
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/firing-back-at-texas-redistricting-newsom-calls-special-election-to-authorize-california-countermove/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250814/p92#a250814p92

Heather Honey,
a high-profile denier of Donald Trump’s loss in the 2020 election,
has been appointed to a senior position in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security
in which she’ll help oversee the nation’s election infrastructure.
Honey is a protege of Cleta Mitchell,
a lawyer who tried to help Trump overturn the 2020 election results.
In 2024, ProPublica reported that Honey had played a key role in Mitchell’s behind-the-scenes effort to change Georgia’…

She Pushed to Overturn Trump’s Loss in the 2020 Election. Now She’ll Help Oversee U.S. Election Security.
Heather Honey has been appointed to a senior position in the Department of Homeland Security. State election officials and voting experts are concerned.

"Russia is quietly churning out fake content posing as US news" - Election Law Blog
https://electionlawblog.org/?p=151624

Matt DePerno, still facing charges tied to election probes, takes step to run for AG again (Craig Mauger/The Detroit News)
https://eu.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2025/08/14/republican-matt-deperno-attorney-general-campaign-pending-criminal-charges-2020-election-machines/85656383007/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250815/p14#a250815p14

"$5,000-Per-Plate Dinner Tests Museum Ban on Political Fund-Raisers" - Election Law Blog
https://electionlawblog.org/?p=151622

It's Isaiah Martin, and the countdown is at 82 days until my special election.
Two huge updates for you.
#1: It's official, we kicked the hive, so MAGA has put in a handpicked Trumpster to run against me.
💥But getting arrested didn't scare me, so their lackey doesn't either.
They won't steal this seat in Congress from the people.
#2 Last night we hosted a town hall with over 11,000 people in attendance.
💥Momentum is building, and we c…

Isaiah Martin For Congress
​​Isaiah Martin is a proud Houston native, loyal brother and son, and a dedicated advocate. ​Isaiah’s upbringing instilled in him the values of service, resilience, and a deep commitment to his community. He believes in a Democratic Party that has a spine and fights back against Donald Trump and MAGA Republicans as they try to tear down programs that lift up the most vulnerable.

Trump family has made over $4B in crypto since Election Day (MSNBC)
https://www.msnbc.com/ana-cabrera-reports/watch/trump-family-has-made-over-4b-in-crypto-since-election-day-244983877646
http://www.memeorandum.com/250814/p80#a250814p80

The Trump administration wants the last four digits of every voter’s Social Security number
—as part of its sweeping efforts to compile a federal voting database
The administration could use the database to investigate claims of noncitizen voting,
an obsession of Trump and other Republicans who claimed the 2020 election had been stolen through massive voter fraud.
In reality, the only ones concocting a scheme to fake votes in that election were in Donald Trump’s camp.

In Disturbing Move, Trump’s DOJ Demands Voting Data From States
It’s part of a sweeping project led by election deniers. Voting rights advocates are alarmed.

Iraq and Afghanistan veteran launches Democratic campaign against Sen. Susan Collins in Maine (Allan Smith/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2026-election/iraq-afghanistan-veteran-launches-democratic-campaign-sen-susan-collin-rcna225703
http://www.memeorandum.com/250819/p7#a250819p7

Argentine President Javier Milei suffered a sweeping setback on Sunday in a Buenos Aires provincial election widely viewed as a political test for his libertarian party and a barometer for how it will perform in crucial congressional midterms next month.
Milei’s recently formed La Libertad Avanza party captured just 34% of the vote in Argentina’s biggest province,
losing by a landslide to the left-leaning Peronist opposition, which secured 47% with the majority of ballots counted …

Milei's party crushed in Argentine local elections
The party of Argentina’s libertarian President Javier Milei has suffered a sweeping setback in the Buenos Aires provincial election that is viewed as a barometer of the party's performance in congressional midterms next month. Milei’s recently formed La Libertad Avanza party captured just 34% of the vote in Argentina’s biggest province while the left-leaning Peronist opposition secured 47%, with the majority of ballots counted late Sunday. With Milei’s close associates embroiled by a gr…

Sen. Thom Tillis says he won’t seek re-election
after opposing Trump megabill
“It’s not a hard choice, and I will not be seeking re-election” -- Sen. Thom Tillis announced.
His announcement comes after he voted against advancing Trump’s megabill.
Trump has repeatedly criticized Tillis over his opposition to the sweeping tax package — and has threatened to explore primary challengers to the two-term Senator

Sen. Thom Tillis says he won't seek re-election after opposing Trump megabill
Sen. Thom Tillis' announcement is likely to spur a competitive and costly election in the key battleground.

Conservative network Newsmax agrees to pay $67M in defamation case over bogus 2020 election claims (Nicholas Riccardi/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/dominion-voting-newsmax-defamation-trump-2020-3b2366dfdae3a8432afe822bf14fe1ef
http://www.memeorandum.com/250818/p70#a250818p70

Selling Zohran -- On a cool Sunday in November, a few days after Donald Trump's re-election ... (Corey Atad/Defector)
https://defector.com/selling-zohran
http://www.memeorandum.com/250818/p53#a250818p53

The challenger who narrowly lost to GOP Rep. Scott Perry wants another chance to beat him in 2026 (Marc Levy/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/scott-perry-stelson-congress-campaign-2026-election-39aee3eaf631b7dac92505cd1b5ab6cc
http://www.memeorandum.com/250714/p45#a250714p45