[Link] Looks Like Ron DeSantis Is Getting His Election Police Force

Read: 13/3/2022 www.vice.com

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ grand plan for an election police force has been widely panned as an absolutely terrible idea in practice by experts nationally.

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[Link] Supreme Court Says Racial Gerrymandering Is No Big Deal

Read: 8/2/2022 www.vice.com

The Supreme Court just undercut Black voters’ power in Alabama—and signaled that it’s likely to further gut the Voting Rights Act. This ruling isn’t specifically on the merits of whether the map violated the Voting Rights Act or not—that’ll come later.

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[Link] The plan to tighten Australia’s voter ID laws is just a clumsy uptake of US culture wars

Read: 7/11/2021 www.theguardian.com

It resembles many initiatives of the Morrison government, and most of the ideas which have emerged from Australian conservatism more broadly in the past decade or more, in that it is opportunistic, unoriginal, and so unnecessary as to be baffling.

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[Link] FCC Proposes Record Fine Against Pro-Trump Robocall Scam, But Will It Collect?

Read: 25/8/2021 www.vice.com

The FCC this week announced that partisan disinformation merchants Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman could face a record $5 million fine for illegal robocalls placed during the run up to the 2020 elections.

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