Under a Biden administration, fireside chats in the White House will come with new expectations that Australia significantly increases its ambitions under the Paris agreement.
Mail-in and absentee ballots, like these being processed by election workers in Pennsylvania, are a subject of misinformation spreading across social media.
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Election misinformation typically involves false narratives of fraud that include out-of-context or otherwise misleading images and faulty statistics as purported evidence.
Anxious moments: Trump supporters on election night.
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The major social media firms have taken a largely piecemeal and fractured approach to managing the problem.
Residents flee after demonstrators are dispersed in the Cocody district of Abidjan on October 19, 2020, during a protest against a third term for Ivorian President Alassane Ouattara.
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That “friend of a friend” post you’re thinking about sharing on social media could make you an unwitting accomplice in a disinformation campaign.
Ransomware attacks often strike local government computer systems, which poses a challenge for protecting elections.
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A ransomware attack on election-related government computers in a Georgia county raises the specter of more disruptions for Election Day voting and vote tabulation.
A Texas limit of one ballot drop-off box per county has been challenged in state and federal courts.
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Liz Minchin, The Conversation; Michael Lund, The Conversation; Wes Mountain, The Conversation; Veronika Meduna, The Conversation, dan Finlay Macdonald, The Conversation
Labour’s landslide election win means it could govern alone, without support from any of the other parties.
A first-time voter at the 2012 US presidential election.
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This year is seeing a high number of absentee and mail-in ballots and voting in the period before Election Day – but early voting periods are not new to the 2020 election.
Ghanaian voters are among the most sophisticated in sub-Saharan Africa.
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An open candidate selection process would provide less incentive for the issuance of material benefits to only a few delegates while the constituency is neglected.
As Labor’s Annastacia Palaszczuk and the LNP’s Deb Frecklington vie for Queenslanders’ votes, leadership, COVID and economic recovery are set to dominate debate.