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It's not yet clear what judgment voters will render on Obamacare in the midterm elections in November, but for now McConnell's strategy seems to have paid off.

A Monmouth University survey released on Wednesday — conducted by telephone, and with a plus - or - minus 3.5 % margin of error — found that 51 % of registered voters said they would vote for or lean toward a Democratic candidate if the 2018 elections were held today, compared to just 36 % who said they would vote or lean Republican.

Delegate - rich Florida, the third - largest prize on the map and the biggest treasure trove of all the battlegrounds, saw a massive increase in voter turnout for the 2016 election in comparison with 2012.

Now local legislatures can make such changes without explanation, and it's up to voters to try to challenge them in lawsuits, and to do so often on an tight timetable, since courts won't want to change voting rules close to an election.

ANALYSIS: The recent state budget did little to convince voters the Barnett government is on the right track ahead of the 2017 election.

They advised the couple on how to reach out to Latino voters in the 1960 campaign, when new Mexican - American voters helped swing a close election.

Cambridge Analytica has denied Facebook data was used to help to build profiles on American voters and build support for Donald Trump in the 2016 US presidential election.

Zuckerberg said Thursday that «voters make decisions based on their lived experience,» continuing, «Part of what I think is going on here is people are trying to understand results of the election, but I do think that there is a certain profound lack of empathy in asserting that the only reason that some of them are voting the way they did is because they saw some fake news.

The assertions of voter fraud, which Trump first made shortly after the election, gained traction this week after Trump, as president, repeated them during a closed - door meeting with congressional leaders on Monday.

The NRCC ran ads against Lamb telling voters he would be identical to Pelosi if he made it to the House, which other Republican groups piled on in the weeks leading up to Election Day.

Some observers believe that the profusion of fake articles on Facebook helped sway the presidential election in favor of Trump, although others have argued that all this accomplished was to entrench the views that Trump voters already held about various issues.

Labour's candidate Christian Wolmar reported that Goldsmith's behaviour during the mayoral election was regularly raised by voters on the doorstep.

The cyber-nightmare on election night that Graff says is possible probably won't involve a massive attack that prevents each voter from voting.

In a complaint aimed at blocking the certification of Alabama's special election, which is scheduled to take place later on Thursday, Moore's campaign makes accusations of voter fraud and smears against him.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg last week called the claim Facebook skewed the election «a pretty crazy idea,» adding that «voters make decisions based on their lived experience.»

WASHINGTON, Dec 14 - The U.S. Federal Communications Commission vote on Thursday to roll back net neutrality rules could galvanize young voters, a move Democrats hope will send millennials to the polls in greater numbers and bolster their chances in next year's elections.

The first exit poll data released on Election Day shows that just about 4 in 10 voters are excited about a possible Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton presidency.

Moore, whose campaign filed a last - minute «election fraud» complaint on Thursday just before the results were certified just after 2 p.m. EST, claimed that widespread voter fraud had contributed to his more than 20,000 vote loss to Jones, a number that was not significantly altered by the inclusion of military and provisional ballots that were later counted.

The euro managed to recover losses made on Monday after two anti-establishment leaders made early plays to govern Italy following an inconclusive election where voters shunted mainstream parties to the sidelines.

With the election on Tuesday, voters delivered a verdict on the country's direction, affirming Trump's message about the need for a Washington shake - up and sending a self - described political outsider into the Oval Office.

And according to a top - secret National Security Agency document leaked to the Intercept and published earlier this month, hackers associated with Russia's military intelligence agency targeted a company with information on US voting software days before the election and used the data to launch «voter - registration - themed» cyberattacks on local government officials.

Deep Root Analytics, a conservative data firm contracted by the RNC as part of a push to ramp up its voter - analytics operation in the wake of Mitt Romney's defeat in the 2012 presidential election, stored details of about 61 % of the US population on an Amazon cloud server without password protection for those two weeks.

Indeed, the Trump transition team released a statement in December that appeared to cast doubt on the CIA's findings that Russia had meddled in the election with the specific purpose of damaging Clinton's candidacy and swinging voters towards Trump.

«While I am not aware of evidence that the 2016 voting process itself was subjected to manipulation, and have no reason to doubt the validity of the election results, we know that the DHS and FBI have confirmed two intrusions into voter registration databases in Arizona and Illinois by foreign - based hackers,» Sen. Mark Warner, the vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, wrote in a letter on Tuesday to Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly.

Time reported on Thursday that the hackers successfully altered voter information in at least one election database and stole thousands of voter records containing private information like Social Security numbers.

Trump did not elaborate on how exactly he thought the election would be rigged, though he did make mention of his displeasure that a federal court had struck down a North Carolina voter ID law that the court said was specifically aimed at disenfranchising black voters.

With two deeply unpopular nominees on the presidential ballot this year, the number of voters in Maryland who wrote in their own candidate for president more than tripled, according to state election data.

When you engage in the election through WE Decide 2016, your viewpoints on the issues will be brought directly to the candidates, the media, and the voters.

Italian elections are due to take place during the first half of 2018, and have the potential to deliver another political upset, although recently there have been signs that populist parties — most notably the Five Star Movement, which according to polls enjoys similar levels of support among Italian voters as the ruling Democratic Party — are toning down their calls for a referendum on Italy's membership of the eurozone.

The implications in the United States will depend on how well Mr. Trump and his allies are able to sell the deal's direct benefits to voters in midterm elections in the fall.

Three people from Robstown have been indicted on voter fraud charges connected to 2016 elections, according to a news release from the Texas Attorney General's Office.

The disconnect between Trump voters and «coastal elite» technology companies has highlighted that for all their election - season bluster, the industry has plenty of work to do on diversity, gender equity, and poverty within its own ranks.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP)-- Arkansas» highest court on Wednesday said the state can enforce a voter ID law in the May 22 primary election despite a judge declaring the measure unconstitutional.

Greeks cast their ballots on Sunday in their most critical and uncertain elections in decades, with voters seemingly set to punish the two main parties that are being held responsible for the country's dire economic straits.

Those systemic problems have dramatically worsened since the presidential election, with Facebook coming under intense fire on multiple fronts: Russian operatives using Facebook to manipulate voter sentiment during the presidential election, Facebook accounts spreading «fake» news, the potential for its advertising system to be used for racist targeting and its slow response to violent or harmful content on the platform.

That's the question many Americans are asking after revelations that a data - mining firm working for the Trump campaign improperly got its hands on the personal information of tens of millions of Facebook users and created detailed profiles that were used to target unsuspecting voters in the presidential election.

But there also was concern that the Syriza leaders did not begin immediately upon their January election victory to educate voters on what actually is at issue: why remaining subject to the junk - economics dictates by the IMF and ECB will make the economy subject to chronic debt deflation.

With President Trump's claim of voter fraud on a massive scale in the 2016 presidential election, it may be time for the country to...

India's information technology minister last week warned against any abuse of social media in elections, following reports that the analytics firm improperly accessed information on millions of Facebook users to target U.S. voters.

The federal budget on May 8 will no doubt have further goodies for voters in the run - up to the net election, which will be either this year or relatively early next year.

Alberta voters swept out cash - flush Progressive Conservative candidates in favour of the cash - strapped New Democrats in 2015, but it has generally been the case in Alberta elections that the richest campaigns win on election day.

The political firm, which consulted on President Donald Trump's campaign, siphoned data from some 50 million Facebook users as it built an election - consulting company that boasted it could sway voters in contests all over the world.

In a true democracy, those representatives present a platform that will act on the wishes of the majority; however it is up to the person seeking election to inform voters of their intent should they be successful in their pursuit.

On Friday, Mueller issued indictments for 13 Russians and three Russian companies for using propaganda tactics over social media to influence US voters in the 2016 presidential election.

Libertarian Gary Johnson's plan for capturing the White House hinges on voters following through on polls suggesting they dislike the Republican and Democratic presidential nominees more than in any election year in history.

KUALA LUMPUR - Electoral watchdog groups in Malaysia said on Thursday the voter list for next week's general election had major flaws, including the existence of a 121 - year - old voter, raising the spectre of possible fraud.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg takes his seat after a break to continue to testify before a joint hearing of the Commerce and Judiciary Committees on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, April 10, 2018, about the use of Facebook data to target American voters in the 2016 election.

The social network's announcement Friday could allay concerns of election experts and lawmakers that ads about hot - button social issues meant to be divisive and foment voter outrage might still slip through, leaving a dangerous weak spot on the network.

Election experts say Facebook must crack down on inflammatory ads on politically divisive issues such as immigration reform and gun rights, which were used to influence voters during and after the presidential campaign.

WASHINGTON — Former president Barack Obama's top campaign aide on Tuesday rejected comparisons between Obama's extensive use of Facebook data to turn out voters in the 2012 election and the actions of Cambridge Analytica, a data and political intelligence firm ejected last week by Facebook in a growing controversy over social - media privacy.