• Half a Million Hong Kong Residents Defy Government Warnings to Vote in Pro-Democracy Primary

    Half a Million Hong Kong Residents Defy Government Warnings to Vote in Pro-Democracy Primary

    Upwards of half a million Hong Kong residents turned out over the weekend to vote in the semi-autonomous Chinese city’s unofficial primary election despite warnings from government officials that they could be in violation of a new national security law imposed by Beijing. More than 600,000 people voted at more than 250 polling stations across the …
  • California to Send Every Voter Mail-in Ballot for General Election

    California to Send Every Voter Mail-in Ballot for General Election

    California Governor Gavin Newsom signed a bill Thursday requiring that a mail-in ballot be sent to every registered voter in the state for the presidential election in November. Newsom in May ordered that county elections officials send every voter a mail-in ballot for the November election, citing the health threats of voting in person during the coronavirus …
  • Trump Warns Mass Vote-By-Mail ‘Puts the Election at Risk’

    Trump Warns Mass Vote-By-Mail ‘Puts the Election at Risk’

    President Trump warned in a Thursday interview that widespread mail-in voting in November “puts the election at risk,” and rejected the premise of a question about whether he would accept the election results no matter what, saying “you can never answer the second question, right?” Speaking to Politico in the White House, Trump expressed worries …
  • Amazon plans pre-election release for Stacey Abrams voting rights documentary 

    Amazon plans pre-election release for Stacey Abrams voting rights documentary 

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  • Watchdog mulls Facebook ad boycott over Zuckerberg’s inaction on Trump posts

    Watchdog mulls Facebook ad boycott over Zuckerberg’s inaction on Trump posts

    Mark Zuckerberg’s controversial decision to not censor offensive or inaccurate posts by President Trump could land him in hot water with advertisers, according to a new report. Liberal media watchdog group Media Matters for America is drafting a letter urging advertisers to pull their ad spots from Facebook in protest of Zuckerberg’s handling of Trump’s …
  • Poll: Americans Increasingly View China as an ‘Enemy’ amid Coronavirus

    Poll: Americans Increasingly View China as an ‘Enemy’ amid Coronavirus

    More U.S. voters see China as an “enemy” than as a friend or ally amid the coronavirus pandemic, according to a new Politico/Morning Consult poll. The data shows that the percentage of U.S. voters who see China as hostile has risen 11 percentage points since January to 31 percent, while the number of respondents who …
  • Biden Says if Voters Believe Tara Reade, ‘They Probably Shouldn’t Vote for Me’

    Biden Says if Voters Believe Tara Reade, ‘They Probably Shouldn’t Vote for Me’

    Joe Biden on Thursday again addressed allegations of sexual assault from former staffer Tara Reade, saying that voters should not choose him in the November elections if they believe Reade’s claims. Voters “should vote their heart and if they believe Tara Reade, they probably shouldn’t vote for me,” Biden said on MSNBC’s The Last Word. “I …
  • Judge Reinstates New York Democratic Primary

    Judge Reinstates New York Democratic Primary

    A federal judge on Tuesday ruled against the New York Board of Elections’ decision to cancel the state’s Democratic primary election and ordered the state to hold the election next month as planned. The preliminary injunction from Manhattan Federal Court Judge Analisa Torres requires New York to reinstate Democratic candidates on the ballot who were “duly …