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Since Donald Trump’s return to the White House, the president has made it clear that voter suppression is a top priority.
In March, Trump issued a sweeping anti-voting executive order that could disenfranchise millions.
And while courts have blocked key provisions of his order, the White House promised that another order, likely targeting mail voting, is on the way. 
Meanwhile, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is engaged in an unprecedented attack on voting rights,

Trump’s Administration Is Full of Election Deniers — They’re Already Working to Rig the Vote
Read about the fight for democracy from activists, elected officials, legal experts and others.

This is surely going to be in a future RISKS Digest.
"This aspect of Helios’ design ensures that no two trustees could collude to determine the outcome of an election or the contents of individual votes on their own: all trustees must provide their decryption shares.
Unfortunately, one of the three trustees has irretrievably lost their private key [...]"

An Automated Framework for Assessing Electric Vehicle Charging Impacts on a Campus Distribution Grid
Mohammadreza Iranpour, Sammy Hamed, Mohammad Rasoul Narimani, Silvia Carpitella, Kourosh Sedghisigarchi, Xudong Jia
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16218

An Automated Framework for Assessing Electric Vehicle Charging Impacts on a Campus Distribution Grid
This paper introduces a unified and automated framework designed to dynamically assess the impact of electric vehicle (EV) charging on distribution feeders and transformers at California State University, Northridge (CSUN). As EV adoption accelerates, the resulting increase in charging demand imposes additional stress on local power distribution systems. Moreover, the evolving nature of EV load profiles throughout the day necessitates detailed temporal analysis to identify peak loading conditio…

Exclusive: Sanders weighs in on AOC's future, 2028 (Stephen Neukam/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/10/23/bernie-sanders-aoc-2028-presidential-election
http://www.memeorandum.com/251023/p9#a251023p9

Umfrage der Datenschutzbeauftragten: Ohne Sicherheit kein Vertrauen in die ePA
Viele Menschen sind nicht gut über die elektronische Patientenakte informiert. Das geht aus einer Umfrage der Bundesdatenschutzbeauftragten hervor.

Relativistically-strong electromagnetic waves in magnetized plasmas
Maxim Lyutikov (Purdue University)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17245 https://arxiv.org/p…

Relativistically-strong electromagnetic waves in magnetized plasmas
Using a two-fluid approach, we consider the properties of relativistically nonlinear (arbitrary $a_0$), circularly polarized electromagnetic waves propagating along magnetic field in electron-ion and pair plasmas. Dispersion relations depend on how wave intensity scales with frequency, $a_0 (ω)$. For superluminal branches, the nonlinear effects reduce the cut-off frequency, while the general form of the dispersion relations $ω(k)$ remains similar to the linear case. For subluminal waves, whis…

Light thermal dark matter models in the light of DAMIC-M 2025 constraints
Debasish Borah, Satyabrata Mahapatra, Narendra Sahu, Vicky Singh Thounaojam
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16319

Light thermal dark matter models in the light of DAMIC-M 2025 constraints
We study the viability of light thermal dark matter (DM) in sub-GeV mass range in view of the stringent new DAMIC-M limits on DM-electron scattering. Considering a Dirac fermion singlet DM charged under a new Abelian gauge symmetry $U(1)$, we outline two possibilities: (i) family non-universal $U(1)$ gauge coupling with resonantly enhanced DM annihilation into standard model (SM) fermions and (ii) family universal dark $U(1)$ gauge symmetry where relic is set by DM annihilation into light gauge…

Etwas mehr der heute besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Umfrage der Datenschutzbeauftragten: Ohne Sicherheit kein Vertrauen in die ePA

DNC under fire for hiding autopsy report on 2024 election (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/12/19/dnc-2024-election-autopsy-backlash
http://www.memeorandum.com/251219/p13#a251219p13

Cynthia Lummis, a One-Term G.O.P. Senator, Will Not Seek Re-election (Catie Edmondson/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/20/us/politics/cynthia-lummis-reelection.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251220/p50#a251220p50