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Don’t use AI to tell you how to vote in election, says Dutch watchdog
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/21/ai-chatbots-unreliable-biased-advice-voters-dutch-watchdog

North Carolina Senate Approves Gerrymander Targeting Black Voters (Jen Rice/Democracy Docket)
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/north-carolina-senate-approves-gerrymander-targeting-black-voters/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251021/p73#a251021p73

The latest poll from Data for Progress
found that nearly six in 10 American voters would blame the GOP or Trump for a government shutdown,
-- not Democrats
One expert told Newsweek that the poll's findings aren't "terribly surprising."
Congress is facing an end-of-the-month deadline to pass a budget bill to fund the federal government or face a shutdown.
The impacts of a shutdown are myriad
—hundreds of thousands of federal workers may be …

Republicans Get Warning About Government Shutdown in New Poll
A new poll shed light on whether voters would blame Democrats or Republicans for a government shutdown.

The Supreme Court appears ready to strike down Section 2 of the 1965 Voting Rights Act,
threatening the equal representation of Black voters,
and potentially greenlighting Republican gerrymandering ahead of the 2026 midterm election.
The case concerns Louisiana’s six congressional districts,
two of which are majority-Black,
in approximate proportion to the Black population of the state.
A previous map that gave Black voters only one district in which the…

Will Supreme Court Gut Voting Rights Act & Weaken Electoral Power of Black Americans?
The Supreme Court appears ready to strike down Section 2 of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, threatening the equal representation of Black voters, and potentially greenlighting Republican gerrymandering ahead of the 2026 midterm election. The case concerns Louisiana’s six congressional districts, two of which are majority-Black, in approximate proportion to the Black population of the state. A previous map that gave Black voters only one district in which they were a majority was ruled to have vio…

For those of us in Galloway, this is extremely bad news. Stranraer used to be a large reservoir of #UKLabour/#SNP swing voters, and the population of Stranraer is substantially larger than the population of the Rhinns.
If that ward is returning a #Tory/

Docs: Golden Globes owner Penske Media is selling $75K marketing packages to podcasters to promote their shows to Globes voters for its first podcasting award (Oliver Darcy/Status)
https://www.status.news/p/golden-globes-best-podcast-jay-penske

Penske and the Podcasters
Jay Penske’s Golden Globes are debuting a “Best Podcast” award—and documents obtained by Status show he’s trying to sell pricey packages that could boost the chances of right-wing extremists winning the award.

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

The GOP wants to keep Americans out of schools & colleges because the #uneducated vote #Republican.
They honestly believes educating voters is a BAD thing.
☑️ #Trump administration a…

Fox News Poll: Voters say White House is doing more harm than good on economy (Fox News)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fox-news-poll-voters-say-white-house-doing-more-harm-than-good-economy
http://www.memeorandum.com/251119/p148#a251119p148