Written by Continuing blogging about Edina local politics… today’s race: mayor! There are two candidates for this race: Both candidates have tenures in Edina’s government – Anderson served on the Edina city council for one term (he lost his bid for reelection), whereas Hovland has been mayor for almost 20 years (and was on the city council […]
I’m gonna do some more write-ups on local (Edina) elections this year. (Those of you here for software development thoughts: I’ll go back to that soon.) Today’s race: Hennepin county commissioner for district 6. There are two candidates for this race: If you’re feeling some deja vu, it’s because there was a special election for […]
Weaponized Digital Advertising With the 2024 United States presidential election around the corner, political parties have already ramped up their advertising spending to attempt to persuade voters to cast their ballot in a particular direction this November. In the 2016 U.S. presidential election, the Trump campaign was spending around $1 million per day on Facebook […]
tl;dr This election season was marked by widespread use of technology to create deceptive or misleading synthetic content like ‘cheapfakes’ and ‘deepfakes’. Action against political actors violating the Model Code of Conduct (“MCC”) and other legal instruments was delayed and inadequate. As we trace the Election Commission of India’s (“ECI”) response during this election period […]
I’ve just placed a sizeable 6 figure bet on TRUMP to win re-election in the US 2020 presidential race, here’s why… Many of my long time readers will remember my wager on Trump to win the election in 2016 which returned over 500%, a giant trade and a result that most people around me said […]