The NYT coverage of the Romanian constitutional court’s decision is here; the court’s decision itself is here. The NYT reports that the decision was based on manipulation of digital media — including this Tiktok controversy and alleged Russian interference.
The U.S. Embassy’s statement on the decision is here.
And the European Commission has ordered TikTok to preserve information under the EU’s Digital Services Act, for a pending investigation and increased future monitoring.
Sort of. The Newsweek headline should really read “Donald Trump Announces Policy Goals” for elections, since all of what he’s proposing would require legislation: “We’re gonna do things that have been really needed for a long time,” he said. “And we are gonna look at elections. We want to have paper ballots, one day voting, voter ID, and proof of citizenship.”
Following on this Pew data, more research from UC San Diego’s Yankelovich Center shows that voters’ expressed level of trust in the election process continues to be driven to a disturbingly large degree by the identity of the winners.
Not all election denialism depends on the winner. I’ll continue to hope for repercussions for county board members taking the position that all of the votes of their own constituents should be thrown out.
More from the Yankelovich Center, this time on urban turnout, comparing presidential turnout (promising!) to mayoral turnout (sad trombone), and also noting the skew that comes with a different electorate.
The Guardian parses the FEC tech-sector filings beyond Musk.
Your reminder that FEC filings facilitate the drunkard’s search under the streetlight: they show what they show, but only where the light is good enough to see.