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Facebook To Ban Misinformation On Voting In Upcoming US Elections (reuters.com)
"Facebook will ban false information about voting requirements and fake reports of violence or long lines at polling stations in the run-up to and during next month's U.S. midterm elections," reports Reuters. The latest efforts are to reduce voter manipulation across its platform. From the report: The world's largest online social network, with 1.5 billion daily users, has stopped short of banning all false or misleading posts, something that Facebook has shied away from as it would likely increase its expenses and leave it open to charges of censorship. The ban on false information about voting methods, set to be announced later on Monday, comes six weeks after Senator Ron Wyden asked Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg how Facebook would counter posts aimed at suppressing votes, such as by telling certain users they could vote by text, a hoax that has been used to reduce turnout in the past.
The information on voting methods becomes one of the few areas in which falsehoods are prohibited on Facebook, a policy enforced by what the company calls "community standards" moderators, although application of its standards has been uneven. It will not stop the vast majority of untruthful posts about candidates or other election issues.
The information on voting methods becomes one of the few areas in which falsehoods are prohibited on Facebook, a policy enforced by what the company calls "community standards" moderators, although application of its standards has been uneven. It will not stop the vast majority of untruthful posts about candidates or other election issues.
States like Texas, Georgia, etc have been closing polling places in minority neighborhoods. This is why, every single election, the longest lines you see are in minority communities.
I mean, come on, SuperKendall. You must know better than this. It's not like Republicans have been hiding their voter suppression efforts. How do you not know this stuff?
https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/r...
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States like Texas, Georgia, etc have been closing polling places in minority neighborhoods.
So all the more important to get line length info so you can go when it's at a lull...
However fewer places alone does not mean they do not have multiple choices still. For instance, from an article on one of the worse reductions (in Arizona):
Phoenixâ(TM)s Maricopa County, the largest in the state, reduced the number of polling places by 70 percent from 2012 to 2016, from 200 to just 60.
I don't know if you know numbers at all, but 60 is quite a lot larger than 1. Since the post I was responding to was all about single verses multiple polling locations, I'm afraid all we can infer is that you don't know that 60 is larger than 1.... that would match with the typical liberal failure to understand numbers generally.
It's not like Republicans have been hiding their voter suppression efforts.
It's always amusing to me when a liberal fascist such as yourself complains about election fraud on one hand and then turns right back around and attempts to block anything that contributes to election integrity.
If you really cared you would go to one of the counties with reduced polling stations and help transport people to the polls with the shortest lines. But I am pretty sure come Nov 2 you will be sitting on your ass whining on Slashdot instead. Oh I will be also, but I don't make any pretense to care about how counties choose to manage polling locations since I don't like to comment without having so depth to my understanding, unlike your knee-jerk reactionary posts based on your own non-understanding of complex issues...
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So, more important to get authentic line length info. Someone posting from Bulgaria about line length in Council Bluffs is probably trying to suppress the vote.
In Maricopa County, as in all of Arizona, you are assigned a polling place. You can't just show up at whichever one you want on election day.
You would know this if you were a voter in the US.
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Listen here:
https://www.npr.org/podcasts/3...
Oct 12, Another View.
AV Round Table: VOTE! - skip ahead to 14:30.
Provisional ballots are generally not counted.
And the ballot you cast provisionally must be the ballot for the precinct you are from. They don't keep ballots for all precincts at all polling places. So unless you are in the rare state that will send you the ballot by mail ahead of election day, the only way you're going to get the correct ballot is by going to your assigned precinct's polling place. If they could get their assigned ballot from their assigned polling place, then they wouldn't need a provisional ballot, would they?
Yes, you could cast a provisional ballot, but it would not be counted unless it was the ballot from the precinct you were assigned. That's law. Also, there are several states that do not allow provisional ballots at all.
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