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“A.I. Is Starting to Wear Down Democracy”

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That’s the headline in the NYT, and the second exaggerated NYT headline I’ve flagged today.  I don’t know that the article actually delivers what the headline promises (and headlines are usually not, as I understand it, written by the reporters themselves, which continues to strike me as a disservice to the reporters in situations like these). 

But if you skip the headline and read the piece itself, you’ll find a really useful catalog of some of the ways in which AI has been used in recent elections, with embedded multimedia examples.

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“Noem urges Poles to elect Trump ally as CPAC holds its first meeting in Poland”

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I somehow missed this AP report from Tuesday, about the current U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security (with a cameo by John Eastman) expressly campaigning in Poland for a particular candidate in tomorrow’s Polish presidential election.

(While OLC has interpreted the Hatch Act to exempt foreign elections, it still strikes me as significant to have U.S. cabinet officials actively campaigning abroad. If this is a more frequent thing by gov’t officials other than stray statements from POTUS and VPOTUS, I’d welcome the correction.)

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“Flawed, but ultimately fair, chief electoral officer says of B.C. election”

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From the Vancouver Sun, the most important paragraph in my mind is this one:

Still, Boegman insists that in each case the problems were fixed and the overall outcome of the election was not affected.

As long as humans are running elections, there will be mistakes.  I continue to think that the right standard isn’t whether mistakes are happening, but whether the system is sufficiently robust to catch and correct them before they impact an outcome.

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Young voters and the EU elections

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Paul Hockenos has a piece on the EU parliament elections in Germany, where the vote included 16- and 17-year-olds for the first time.  And as in Portugal, Italy, Sweden, the Netherlands, and France, it looks like younger voters this year disproportionately voted for far-right parties.  (Including, in Germany, far more support for far-right parties than for the Greens.)

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