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Election Security At The Chip Level
Why your electronic voting options might not get better any time soon: RISC-V-based solution under development, but the very nature of a voting system raises issues.
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Facebook bans deepfake videos in run-up to the 2020 U.S. election
Facebook announced measures to protect the 2020 U.S. election from foreign influence and misleading information last year. Now, the firm has announced that it is banning manipulated photos and videos, referred to as deepfakes, from its platforms, in a move aimed to curb misinformation ahead of the U.S. presidential election later this year.
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How Andrew Yang can and should advance racial understanding
Andrew Yang must do more than invoke “model minority” stereotypes that risk pitting Asians against other people of color, and paint him as a competent technocrat rather than leader. Instead of avoiding race, he should lean into it.
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Breakthrough in Bolivia as bill for new elections sails through Congress
Both chambers of Bolivia’s Congress unanimously passed legislation on Saturday to annul the contested Oct. 20 elections and pave the way for a new vote without former President Evo Morales, a major breakthrough in the country’s political crisis.
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Bolivia's Morales resigns after protests over disputed October election
Bolivian President Evo Morales said on Sunday he would resign after the military...
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Trump campaign considers shift on climate change to win reelection
President Trump's reelection campaign is feeling pressure on the issue of climate change. It plans to adopt pro-environment messaging to win key states such as Florida and appease important voter demographics that are moving toward Democrats.
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Researchers trying to prevent a repeat of 2016's election misinformation in 2020 are struggling thanks to a lack of data from Facebook
Facebook's promises of sharing detailed amounts of data with researchers and academics to enable them to study and flag disinformation on the site ahead of the 2020 campaign seem to have fallen short, according to a new report from The New York Times. In April 2018, the social networking giant outlined its plans to provide data to academics to "help people better understand the broader impact of social media on democracy — as well as improve our work to protect the integrity of elections."
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Young Black Voters to Their Biden-Supporting Parents: ‘Is This Your King?’
An organic effort by black millennials and Gen Z-ers to influence older family members against Mr. Biden may be important in the Democratic primary.
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Election Systems Are Even More Vulnerable Than We Thought
Black Hat and Defcon are underway in Vegas, WhatsApp flaws allow hackers to alter messages, and more of this week’s top security news.
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Forget Mueller: Our pants are still down on election security, and Facebook can't save us
Special counsel Robert Mueller's press conference Wednesday, which briefly described his team's thinking about how they approached obstruction allegations against the president, buried one largely buried story about the entire affair: Then and now, we as a country still collectively have our pants down on cybersecurity.
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Could climate change submerge Joe Biden's presidential bid?
Climate change is transforming life by redrawing coastlines, turning vast areas of forest into infernos, stirring enormous storms and spreading exotic diseases. An indirect casualty of this upheaval could be Joe Biden’s hopes of becoming US president. Biden, frontrunner in the polls to secure the Democratic nomination, has not laid out a plan to address the crisis.
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Joe Biden Won’t Blame the Republicans for Trump. That Should Disqualify Him.
There is a long list of reasons to oppose Joe Biden’s presidential campaign. He has a horribly right-wing record on everything from school desegregation to mass incarceration to the Iraq War. He is an old white man running against the most diverse field of presidential candidates in U.S. history. He has a bad habit of making ridiculous and offensive statements.
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Sanders pushes back against Biden's 'most progressive' claim
Sen. Bernie Sanders pushed back against former Vice President Joe Biden's claim that he has "the most progressive record" of any candidate in the Democratic presidential field, citing Biden's votes as a member of the U.S. Senate as evidence that his views were not always in line with the nation's liberals. "I think if you look at Joe’s record and you look at my record, I don’t think there’s much question about who’s more progressive," Sanders, I-Vt., told ABC News Chief White House Correspondent Jonathan Karl in an exclusive interview from Des Moines, Iowa, that aired on "This Week" Sunday.
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Joe Biden announces he is running for president in 2020
After months of deliberation, former Vice President Joe Biden on Thursday announced his decision to run for president for a third time, answering one of the biggest outstanding questions about the makeup of the 2020 race.
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Ukraine Votes [Live]
Follow all of the latest developments as they happen. From Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty.
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Here’s Every Defense of the Electoral College — and Why They’re All Wrong
Most of the arguments for preserving our insane system are morally odious, unsubstantiated, and/or factually incorrect.
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DARPA Is Building a $10 Million, Open Source, Secure Voting System
The system will be fully open source and designed with newly developed secure hardware to make the system not only impervious to certain kinds of hacking, but also allow voters to verify that their votes were recorded accurately.
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US reportedly took Russian trolls offline on Election Day in 2018
The US agency responsible for military cyber operations cut off internet connectivity at the Internet Research Agency in Russia on the day of the 2018 midterm elections, according to a report in The Washington Post on Tuesday. The US Cyber Command "basically took the IRA offline," according to an unnamed source that spoke with the Post.
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Lyndon LaRouche, Cult Figure Who Ran for President 8 Times, Dies at 96
A quixotic leader who began his political career on the far left and ended it on the far right, railing against a host of groups.
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Mitch McConnell Admits He's Against High Voter Turnout Because He Suspects People Will Vote for Democrats
He openly mocked the idea of an Election Day holiday on the Senate floor and called it a "power grab" by Democrats.
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