2025-10-14 23:07:20
Today, Mr. Boots & I both cast our votes in the CA special election. If you’re a Californian, you should, too. We must use our voices while we still have them! #Prop50 #StatewideSpecialElection
Today, Mr. Boots & I both cast our votes in the CA special election. If you’re a Californian, you should, too. We must use our voices while we still have them! #Prop50 #StatewideSpecialElection
The Right's Secret Plan to Help Billionaires Buy Elections (Rolling Stone)
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/political-commentary/jd-vance-right-plan-billionaires-elections-1235445122/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251013/p62#a251013p62
It's the latest in a series of moves by Trump acolytes at the Department of Justice
who are transforming the voting section of the agency from an office focused on protecting Americans’ voting rights
to one that is in lockstep with an election denial movement
that incessantly demands investigations and drastic reductions in access to the polls
based on Donald Trump’s lies about elections.
Are Voters Willing to Collectively Secure Elections? Unraveling a Practical Blockchain Voting System
Zhuolun Li, Haluk Sonmezler, Faiza Shirazi, Febin Shaji, Tymoteusz Mroczkowski, Dexter Lardner, Matthew Alain Camus, Evangelos Pournaras
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08700
elec: Wikipedia adminship vote (2008)
A network of votes on Request for Adminship (RfA) elections from a 2008 snapshot of Wikipedia. Nodes represent editors, and a directed edge (i,j) indicates that editor i voted on editor j. Edge sign indicates the direction of the vote: positive = for, and negative = against. Edges are timestamped.
This network has 7118 nodes and 103675 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Signed, Timestamps
🤦🏽 The Dutch Left Had Its Worst Performance Ever
#politics
Please complain about Schumer and his cohort. Please give the mushy centrists black eyes. Please light a fire under all the politicians.
But…please also look for work you can do that doesn’t center around elections. Start local. Help people. Throw sand in the gears. Whatever it is, do work that counts.
Create a context in which there •has• to be an anti-fascist opposition party, because that’s the work so many people are already doing. •That• is what the cynicism is trying to stop you from doing.
/end
En Norvège, la gauche remporte les élections législatives, talonnée par l’extrême droite
https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2025/09/09/en-norvege-la-gauche-remporte-les-elections-legislatives_6640034_…
elec: Wikipedia adminship vote (2008)
A network of votes on Request for Adminship (RfA) elections from a 2008 snapshot of Wikipedia. Nodes represent editors, and a directed edge (i,j) indicates that editor i voted on editor j. Edge sign indicates the direction of the vote: positive = for, and negative = against. Edges are timestamped.
This network has 7118 nodes and 103675 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Signed, Timestamps
Amid controversial elections, Georgian protestors attempt to storm presidential palace: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/05/amid-controversial-elections-georgian-protestors.html
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join for an hour, a day, a week, or the whole way to DC
https://www.weareamericamarch.com/
Far right fizzles in Portugal's local elections (Aitor Hernšndez-Morales/Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/portugal-election-exit-polls-show-lisbon-porto-too-close-to-call/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251013/p21#a251013p21
Crosslisted article(s) found for cs.DC. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.DC/new
[1/1]:
- Are Voters Willing to Collectively Secure Elections? Unraveling a Practical Blockchain Voting System
Li, Sonmezler, Shirazi, Shaji, Mroczkowski, Lardner, Camus, Pournaras
Multiwinner Voting with Interval Preferences under Incomplete Information
Drew Springham, Edith Elkind, Bart de Keijzer, Maria Polukarov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11625 https:/…
Quando leio ingenuidades (sejamos bondosos) sobre ser-se "pela paz", apetece-me mandar imediatamente links para coisas como esta, para ver se o/a ingénuo/a percebe de uma vez por todas com o que estamos a lidar.
https://euromaidanpress.com/2025/11/08
Opinion: The Real Problem (and Solution) With Redistricting Is Simple: The Maps Don’t Make Sense - El Paso News https://elpasonews.org/2025/08/28/opinion-the-real-problem-and-solution-with-redistricting-is-simple-the-ma…
For Trump it is now clear he will be swept away in any coming fair election. The big question is what will he further do to prevent this. The stakes for him and his family/friends are high. Losing elections could mean prosecution and jail. Things could get even more ugly in the US.
#trump #elections
The blueprint – How Lewis Powell’s confidential memo became the secret manifesto for corporate takeover.
The players – From Joseph Coors to Roger Ailes to Leonard Leo—and how they built a machine to dominate politics.
The turning point – The Citizens United case and how a speculative lawsuit became the legal scaffolding for unlimited dark money.
The threat today – Why disclosure laws are crumbling, how dark money came to dictate elections, and how the John…
US Elections Face Security Test as DHS Cuts Local Cyber Support
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-03/us-elections-face-security-test-as-dhs-cuts-local-cyber-support
Arrow's Impossibility Theorem as a Generalisation of Condorcet's Paradox
Ori Livson, Mikhail Prokopenko
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09076 https://ar…
The UK Electoral Commission says it took three years and over £250K to recover from an August 2021 hack that exposed private data of 40M voters to Chinese spies (Joe Tidy/BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c80gl8yvj9go
Free Elections in the Free State: Ensemble Analysis of Redistricting in New Hampshire
Atticus McWhorter, Daryl DeFord
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07328 https://
“Donald Trump can’t be too happy.” CNN data analyst Harry Enten predicts Democratic sweep of elections on Tuesday.
#elections #trump #democrats
Came across this opinion piece today, and I suspect it may be too late to save America. The author states that in 200 days Democrats need to take back power in order to combat Trump. But Trump is already doing what he wants without any intervention by the House or Senate, and the Supreme Court is allowing it. IMO, it's 50/50 that Midterm Elections happen at all, or they will be heavily manipulated by Trump's thugs so that they're meaningless. He's telling Americans what his plans are when he shows off his MAGA 2028 hats.
You know what nations feel like living next to Russia feel like? We are very likely to find out.
#YouHadaGoodRunAmerica
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/16/us-americans-republic-midterm-elections-democrats
With 2026 elections just over the horizon, economic concerns deepen in new UT/Texas Politics Project Poll https://texaspolitics.utexas.edu/blog/with-2026-elections-just-over-the-horizon-economic-concerns-deepen-in-new-ut-texas-politics-project-poll
Ofcom rules that Talk presenter Kevin O'Sullivan breached due impartiality rules during his January 30 show, rejecting News UK's defence he is a "shock jock" (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette…
The #Yukon has elected a new legislature today. It looks like there will be 10 women, 10 men, and 1 non-binary person taking seats.
#Elections
"I want you to understand, regardless of your politics, the historical danger of a secret police. What happens when a militia is deployed in our neighborhoods and against our own people. Left unchecked their mandate will grow; the boundaries of acceptable identity and speech will shrink. I want you to think about elections in this future. I want you to understand that every issue you care about—any hope of participatory democracy—is downstream of this."
Last night's #elections lesson: change is possible! Start where you're at, which includes your local library board!
@librariesftp.bsky.social
helps folks do this with candidate training. Learn more in this newsletter & at the Dec. 4 open house!
Whelp, just spent the last few hours reviewing candidates for our boys' school board, and voting, and then did the same to prepare for the upcoming local elections... which, of course, shows how little one can really glean about a candiate's character from 2 minute videos... will have to investigate further: they mostly talk a good game, but it's hard to know how consequential they have been in past roles and are likely to be now. I fear few folks will make the time to do their d…
Russia May Be Planning Violent Protests After The Moldovan Elections.
https://understandingwar.org/research/russia-ukraine/warning-russia-may-be-planning-violent-protests-after-the-moldovan-elections/
Inside the Clunky Elections to Control Pennsylvania's Supreme Court (Bolts)
https://boltsmag.org/pennsylvania-supreme-court-elections-2025/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251007/p123#a251007p123
A year out from the 2026 midterms, with Republicans feeling the blows from a string of losses in this week’s elections,
Donald Trump and his allies are mounting a multipronged attack on almost every aspect of voting in the United States
and raising what experts say are troubling questions about the future of one of the world’s oldest democracies.
While Democratic leaders continue to invest their hopes in a “blue wave” to overturn Republican majorities in the House and Senat…
Ahead of elections, Moldova’s president warns of Kremlin interference, urges citizens to defend European path: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/23/ahead-of-elections-moldovas-president.html
JB Pritzker:
“He has other aims other than fighting crime.
It’s an attack on the American people.
Should he be sending troops in?
No.
The other aims are that he’d like to stop the elections in 2026
or frankly take control of those elections.”
https://bsky.app/profile/n…
Americans See a Government That Can't Solve Their Problems (John McCormick/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/americans-see-a-government-that-cant-solve-their-problems-60321b82
http://www.memeorandum.com/251109/p8#a251109p8
elec: Wikipedia adminship vote (2008)
A network of votes on Request for Adminship (RfA) elections from a 2008 snapshot of Wikipedia. Nodes represent editors, and a directed edge (i,j) indicates that editor i voted on editor j. Edge sign indicates the direction of the vote: positive = for, and negative = against. Edges are timestamped.
This network has 7118 nodes and 103675 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Signed, Timestamps
Scoop: Dominion Voting sold to company run by ex-GOP election official (Alex Isenstadt/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/10/09/dominion-voting-machines-sold-elections
http://www.memeorandum.com/251009/p76#a251009p76
JB Pritzker:
“He has other aims other than fighting crime.
It’s an attack on the American people.
Should he be sending troops in? No.
The other aims are that he’d like to stop the elections in 2026 or frankly take control of those elections.”
https://bsky.app/profile/newscurrentno…
Ex-military chief Zaluzhnyi again denies running political campaign, supporting elections during war: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/08/exmilitary-chief-zaluzhnyi-again-denies.html
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu and challenger Josh Kraft advance to one-on-one general election (Megan Lebowitz/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/boston-mayor-michelle-wu-challenger-josh-kraft-advance-one-one-general-rcna229806
http://www.memeorandum.com/250909/p172#a250909p172
2025 PA.
PITTSBURGH MAYOR
91% of votes counted
Democrat Corey O'Connor wins.
AP race call at. 5:26 p.m.
on Nov. 4, 2025
https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/results/2025/11/04/p…
2025 MAINE 2 - TEMPORARY RESTRICTIONS ON DANGEROUS WEAPONS POSSESSION
GENERAL
BALLOT MEASURE
estimates
73% of votes counted
Yes. wins.
AP race call at
6:55 p.m. on. Nov. 4, 2025.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/r
elec: Wikipedia adminship vote (2008)
A network of votes on Request for Adminship (RfA) elections from a 2008 snapshot of Wikipedia. Nodes represent editors, and a directed edge (i,j) indicates that editor i voted on editor j. Edge sign indicates the direction of the vote: positive = for, and negative = against. Edges are timestamped.
This network has 7118 nodes and 103675 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Signed, Timestamps
Democrats sweep the night's biggest elections: From the Politics Desk (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/democrats-sweep-first-major-elections-trumps-second-term-politics-desk-rcna242043
http://www.memeorandum.com/251105/p8#a251105p8
To Boost Turnout, Ballot Measure Proposes Moving New York City Elections to Even Years (Daniel Nichanian/Bolts)
https://boltsmag.org/new-york-city-even-year-local-elections/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250905/p81#a250905p81
Why the Most Vulnerable Senate Democrat Hasn't Flipped in the Shutdown Standoff (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/government-shutdown-jon-ossoff-senate-vote-f4113386
http://www.memeorandum.com/251108/p14#a251108p14
Congress Accuses GMU President of Lying About DEI Efforts (Josh Moody/Inside Higher Ed)
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/government/politics-elections/2025/11/07/congress-accuses-gmu-president-lying-about-dei
http://www.memeorandum.com/251107/p91#a251107p91
Jay Jones won the Virginia Attorney General election because people hate President Donald Trump and what he’s doing to this country.
And in an election that provided, as elections invariably do, a jillion takeaways, let’s not lose of sight of what is obviously and toweringly takeaway number one:
Americans have developed a big-time case of buyer’s remorse about Trump, and a very solid majority of them despise what Trump has perpetrated against America.
Project 2026: Trump's Plan to Rig the Next Election (Ari Berman/Mother Jones)
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/09/donald-trump-plan-to-rig-2026-midterm-elections-voter-suppression-gerrymandering-certification/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250908/p81#a250908p81
Georgia elections official who condemned Trump runs for secretary of state (Aaron Pellish/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/04/georgia-elections-trump-gabriel-sterling-00545399
http://www.memeorandum.com/250904/p119#a250904p119
Trump’s request to add a documentary proof of citizenship requirement to the federal voter registration form cannot be enforced, a federal judge ruled Friday.
U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly in Washington, D.C., sided with Democratic and civil rights groups that sued the Trump administration over his executive order to overhaul U.S. elections.
No She ruled that the proof-of-citizenship directive is an unconstitutional violation of the separation of powers, dealing a b…
Can Democrats mount a comeback? Look to Tuesday's elections for clues. (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/04/democrats-2025-nj-virginia-elections-00633926
http://www.memeorandum.com/251104/p35#a251104p35
Dems outpace GOP ad spending for Tuesday's elections (Holly Otterbein/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/11/03/democrats-ad-spending-2025-elections
http://www.memeorandum.com/251103/p29#a251103p29
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 …
How a backlash to Trump fueled Democratic gains with Latino voters (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/11/07/latino-voters-democrats-trump-republicans-elections/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251107/p77#a251107p77
Cleta Mitchell Thinks Trump Will Use Emergency Powers to Take Control of Elections (Matt Cohen/Democracy Docket)
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/cleta-mitchell-thinks-trump-will-use-emergency-powers-to-take-control-of-elections/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250903/p153#a250903p153
Look at what Supreme Court Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Stephen Breyer said about 𝘊𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘻𝘦𝘯𝘴 𝘜𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘥. >>
🔴 “The Court’s ruling threatens to undermine the integrity of elected institutions across the Nation.”
🔴 “A democracy cannot function effectively when its constituent members believe laws are being bought and sold.”
🔴 “Legal entities like corporations … are not ‘We the People’ for whom our Constitution was established.”
𝗪𝗲 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗻…
Behind the Curtain: The resistance revitalized (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/11/06/democrats-elections-mamdani-trump
http://www.memeorandum.com/251106/p15#a251106p15
Charles Munger Jr.’s Shameless Fight Against California Prop 50
The Republican physicist and son of the late Berkshire Hathaway vice chairman has spent millions to stop redistricting efforts
https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/charlie-munger-jr-p…
Economic Anger Once Again Punishes the Party in Power (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/economic-anger-once-again-punishes-the-party-in-power-71d14d18
http://www.memeorandum.com/251105/p175#a251105p175
Pollsters Didn't See the Blue Wave Coming in New Jersey and Virginia (Aaron Zitner/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/pollsters-didnt-see-the-blue-wave-coming-in-new-jersey-and-virginia-dd640214
http://www.memeorandum.com/251105/p174#a251105p174
A federal judge in Washington permanently barred the Trump administration on Friday from requiring proof of citizenship on federal voter registration forms,
a change dictated in an executive order Donald Trump signed in March.
The ruling definitively halted the effort to compel the Elections Assistance Commission,
an independent body,
to adopt nationwide changes to voting procedures
at a time when the president has also called for requiring voter identification …
Progressives may flip Aurora council as voters reject Danielle Jurinsky and other incumbents (Kyle Harris/Denverite)
https://denverite.com/2025/11/05/aurora-city-council-elections-progressive-flip/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251105/p177#a251105p177
A federal judge in Washington permanently barred the Trump administration on Friday from requiring proof of citizenship on federal voter registration forms,
a change dictated in an executive order Donald Trump signed in March.
The ruling definitively halted the effort to compel the Elections Assistance Commission,
an independent body,
to adopt nationwide changes to voting procedures
at a time when the president has also called for requiring voter identification …
Trump Really Was on the Ballot -- The magnitude of the GOP rout is a bad sign for holding Congress in the midterms. (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/2025-elections-donald-trump-gop-democrats-mikie-sherrill-abigail-spanberger-f9729d9d?st=6RLpn6&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
http://www.memeorandum.com/251105/p168#a251105p168
Five burning questions about Trump, Democrats in this fall's elections (Patrick Svitek/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/09/01/elections-trump-democrats-republicans/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250901/p3#a250901p3
The Anti-MAGA Majority Reemerges (David A. Graham/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/2025/11/elections-anti-maga-democrats/684824/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251105/p131#a251105p131
Democrats Dent Trump's Coalition With Three Big Election Victories (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/democrats-dent-trumps-coalition-with-three-big-election-victories-9f7ee017?st=TydCcT
http://www.memeorandum.com/251105/p83#a251105p83
New Jersey Governor Election Results (Alicia Parlapiano/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/11/04/us/elections/results-new-jersey-governor.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251105/p6#a251105p6
Maine Centrist Jared Golden to Quit Congress, Citing Threats and Dysfunction (Olivia Beavers/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/jared-golden-house-democrat-to-quit-congress-c4c6e7a5
http://www.memeorandum.com/251105/p148#a251105p148
Wall Street Couldn't Stop Mayor Mamdani. Now It Has to Work With Him. (Kevin T. Dugan/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/wall-street-couldnt-prevent-mayor-mamdani-now-it-has-to-work-with-him-da538248
http://www.memeorandum.com/251105/p87#a251105p87
Democrats gird for a longer shutdown fight after election sweep (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/05/democrats-shutdown-fight-elections-00638207
http://www.memeorandum.com/251105/p144#a251105p144
Virginia's Ghazala Hashmi becomes the first Muslim woman elected statewide in the U.S. (Alexandra Marquez/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/virginia-ghazala-hashmi-first-muslim-woman-elected-statewide-rcna242014
http://www.memeorandum.com/251104/p159#a251104p159
Two Democrats advance to a special election runoff for a deep-blue Texas House seat (Owen Auston-Babcock/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/two-democrats-advance-special-election-runoff-deep-blue-texas-house-se-rcna238912
http://www.memeorandum.com/251105/p20#a251105p20
California voters approve Democratic-drawn congressional map as national redistricting battle spreads (Ben Kamisar/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/california-ballot-measure-election-act-redistricting-pass-rcna238907
http://www.memeorandum.com/251104/p178#a251104p178
Trump is casting a long shadow on New Jersey's elections (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/10/30/trump-is-casting-long-shadow-new-jerseys-elections/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251030/p72#a251030p72
Democrat Abigail Spanberger wins Virginia governor's race (Adam Edelman/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/virginia-governor-election-results-spanberger-earle-sears-race-win-rcna238685
http://www.memeorandum.com/251104/p146#a251104p146
Pennsylvania voters retain three Democratic Supreme Court justices (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/live-blog/election-day-2025-nyc-mayor-governor-race-live-updates-rcna241592/rcrd92568?canonicalCard=true
http://www.memeorandum.com/251104/p156#a251104p156
Divided Democrats Hope Attacking the Trump Economy Unites Party (Aaron Zitner/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/divided-democrats-hope-attacking-the-trump-economy-unites-party-c98b5cec
http://www.memeorandum.com/251103/p146#a251103p146
NBC News Exit Poll: Voters disapprove of Trump in New Jersey, Virginia and other key races (Stephanie Perry/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/nbc-news-exit-poll-voters-disapprove-trump-new-jersey-virginia-rcna241693
http://www.memeorandum.com/251104/p126#a251104p126
Pennsylvania voters retain three state Supreme Court justices, preserving Democrats' 5-2 majority (Jane C. Timm/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/pennsylvania-supreme-court-vote-election-race-retains-justices-rcna238914
http://www.memeorandum.com/251104/p154#a251104p154
Democrats swept elections far beyond the big races in referendum on Trump (Naftali Bendavid/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/11/08/democrats-local-election-sweep-trump/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251108/p15#a251108p15
U.S. Rep Jesus 'Chuy' Garcia won't seek reelection, leaves seat for chief of staff (Tina Sfondeles/Chicago Sun Times)
https://chicago.suntimes.com/elections/2025/11/03/jesus-chuy-garcia-reelection-dropping-out-chief-of-staff-running
http://www.memeorandum.com/251103/p130#a251103p130
This Is the Way You Beat Trump -- and Trumpism (Ezra Klein/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/02/opinion/democrats-liberalism-elections-crick.html?unlocked_article_code=1.yE8.1yxz.DoSE-1iT8syh&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
http://www.memeorandum.com/251102/p88#a251102p88