Nonpartisan, nonprofit journalism venture CalMatters had a great recent post about California’s recent election. Written by Freddy Brewster and Katie Licari, the article is an interesting look at how elections are administered today: with difficulty. Take a look:
A fake, partisan website mirroring the Placer County election site. Inaccurate online claims that California was closing in-person voting. Multiple false claims that ballots were thrown away.
Those are among the more serious efforts to undermine California’s election that the state worked to shut down, according to public records obtained by CalMatters from the Secretary of State’s Office of Election Cybersecurity.
Records show the office also dealt with posts written by Californians who said they were simply trying to be funny. Vanessa Robinson, a fifth grade teacher, said she was joking when she posted a laughing emoji and wrote that white millennials should “voter suppress and gerrymander” their conservative-leaning parents. The Office of Election Cybersecurity worked with Facebook, Instagram’s parent company, to take down the post.
Also, see related Democracy Chronicles articles like those on the Journalism and Free Speech, Election History, or even seen our section on American Democracy.
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