WSJ: Hillary Clinton is hoping to use Pokémon Go to catch voters. At a rally on Thursday, Mrs. Clinton talked about the game phenomenon, saying “I don’t know who created ‘Pokemon Go,’ but I’ve tried to figure out how we … Continue reading
Mark Buchanan for Bloomberg View. … Continue reading
Tabatha Abu el-Haj for Slate. … Continue reading
Tabatha Abu el-Haj has written this oped for the Philly Inquirer. It begins: As Philadelphia prepares for the coming protests related to the Democratic National Convention – especially those that will proceed without authorization – it is worth remembering that … Continue reading
Cleveland Plain Dealer reports. … Continue reading
Trip Gabriel for the NYT: The divisive nominating contests have produced countercurrents of deep resentment in both parties. And next month, that bitterness could spill into the streets in large protests just when Republicans and Democrats — and the host … Continue reading
Some thoughts I wrote while Donald Trump supporters were being violently attacked in San Jose. … Continue reading
WaPo: A federal judge sentenced a former Florida postal worker to four months in prison Thursday for his gyrocopter flight last year to the U.S. Capitol, a campaign finance protest cited in recent demonstrations that led to 1,200 arrests in … Continue reading
What if you scheduled a major set of events about the most troubling aspects of our democracy and few outside those already active on the issue even knew? … Continue reading
WaPo: A backlash against monied interests in politics that has buoyed the White House bids of Donald Trump and Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont is reverberating far beyond this year’s presidential race. The huge sums swamping campaigns have prompted voters … Continue reading
USA Today reports. … Continue reading
Gizmodo: Inside Facebook, the political discussion has been more explicit. Last month, some Facebook employees used a company poll to ask Zuckerberg whether the company should try “to help prevent President Trump in 2017.” Every week, Facebook employees vote in … Continue reading
Paul Blumenthal for HuffPo. … Continue reading
Peter Overby reports for NPR. … Continue reading
Roll Call: More than 3,600 protesters, demanding that money be taken out of politics, arrived at the U.S. Capitol on Monday for a mass sit-in that quickly led to arrests. The Democracy Spring protesters marched from Philadelphia to the Capitol, … Continue reading
WaPo: The man who landed a gyrocopter on the lawn of the U.S. Capitol last year was denied permission to join a campaign finance protest march from Philadelphia to Washington before his April 13 sentencing by a federal judge who … Continue reading
NLJ on charges against @99Rise protestors: A federal district judge in Washington on Tuesday narrowed the scope of charges against five protesters accused of disrupting U.S. Supreme Court proceedings earlier this year. Charging documents say the defendants “did unlawfully make … Continue reading
WaPo: If you work for the federal government, your Twitter or Facebook profile can show a photo of you hugging Ben Carson or Hillary Clinton. But you can’t share, tweet, ”like,” friend, follow, comment on or retweet anything your candidate says or does when … Continue reading
“If we weren’t sort of a work-in-the-open organization, you could run Politwoops and just not tell anyone. And I think Twitter probably wouldn’t find out,” he said at another point, before quickly adding, “That’s not an endorsement.” –Nicko Margolies of … Continue reading
Boo! … Continue reading
AP: A Florida man who piloted a gyrocopter through miles of America’s most restricted airspace before landing at the U.S. Capitol is now facing charges that carry up to 9½ years in prison….Hughes, who took off from Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, was … Continue reading
People v. Shivers (Appellate Division of LA Superior Court): The circumstantial evidence was sufficient to permit a reasonable trier of fact to conclude defendant acted with intent to incite or produce unlawful action by a third party who read … Continue reading
That’s the lead story in this week’s Electionline Weekly. … Continue reading
Bloomberg reports. … Continue reading
Brian Naylor reports for NPR, with a focus on the role of social media crowd sourcing the vote count. (I am quoted in this piece on “the drama and the data” as making this race special.) Michael McDonald: “Calling Herring … Continue reading
Big political implications in this Ian Urbina piece in NYT’s Sunday Review: Other bots have more underhanded ambitions. Last year, officials from Mexico’s governing Institutional Revolutionary Party were accused of using bots to sabotage the party’s critics by appropriating some … Continue reading
Canadian election law more draconian than ours but less than Iran’s. … Continue reading
Press release: “The editorial in the March-April 2013 issue of Judicature, the journal of the American Judicature Society, addresses the perils and promise of judges’ use of social media. As social media becomes the norm for communication and networking, government … Continue reading
See here. … Continue reading
Important new Pew study. In the last chapter of The Voting Wars I discuss how extreme political positions on Twitter could translate into social unrest in the event of another razor-thin Presidential election. … Continue reading
Byron Tau for Politico: A congressman gets an earful from his neighbor after church about a tax bill. A senator suddenly finds old high school classmates calling her about an upcoming vote on a small business bill. Those meetings may … Continue reading
WSJ Japan: “As the Twitter feeds of hundreds of Japanese politicians fell silent earlier this week, one of the nation’s most popular and outspoken politicians–Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto–continued tweeting on defiantly, challenging a law forbidding candidates from Internet campaigning during … Continue reading
NYT reports. … Continue reading
Political Wire: “A new Pew Research study finds that President Obama holds a distinct advantage over Mitt Romney in the way his campaign is using digital technology to communicate directly with voters. The Obama campaign is posting almost four times … Continue reading
This item appears at the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel‘s “All Politics Blog.” … Continue reading
Slate has excerpted part of my new book. Here’s how the excerpt begins: This article is excerpted from Richard L. Hasen’s book, The Voting Wars: From Florida 2000 to the Next Election Meltdown. The tweets were full of rage. As … Continue reading
The Atlantic reports. … Continue reading
AP: Voters who click on President Barack Obama’s campaign website are likely to start seeing display ads promoting his re-election bid on their Facebook pages and other sites they visit. Voters searching Google for information about Mitt Romney may notice … Continue reading
Unless you want to face felony charges in Wisconsin. … Continue reading
FOX News: “The Justice Department has blocked one of its civil rights analysts from dealing with all matters Mississippi after the employee apparently described the state as ‘disgusting and shameful’ on Facebook — comments that drew a rebuke Tuesday from … Continue reading
AP: “Four years ago, Twitter was in relative infancy and just 1.8 million tweets were sent on Election Day 2008. Now, Twitter gets that many approximately every eight minutes.” I discuss the role that Twitter and other social media could … Continue reading
Interesting NYT report. … Continue reading
WaPo reports. … Continue reading
Time: “Dutch cheese, Hungarian wine, rotten tomato and flan were just a few buzzwords thrown around in the French Twitter community on Sunday, when users wittily tweeted in code to skirt a French law prohibiting voting predictions in the first … Continue reading
Anatomy of a tweeted rumor about Gov. Nikki Haley. … Continue reading
LA Times: “An unlikely Internet sensation has struck it big on YouTube: Los Angeles City Atty. Carmen Trutanich. Two polished videos promoting his run for district attorney last month show Trutanich driving the gritty streets of Los Angeles telling war … Continue reading
Sasha Issenberg has this Slate column. … Continue reading
Maria Teresa Kumar has written this Politico oped.“Come November, we may see a new kind of generational divide emerge in the electorate. Massive media campaigns driven by hundreds of millions of super PAC dollars may indeed overwhelm older ‘offline’ voters … Continue reading
NYT reports. … Continue reading
NYT reports. … Continue reading
