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specific election information!
Click on a state in the map below to view presidential polls conducted on statewide sample groups, plus additional state -
specific election information.
Not exact matches
Among voters who attend services at least monthly, only 16 percent of white evangelicals, 22 percent of Catholics, and 5 percent of white mainline Protestants said that their churches provided
information on voting, the
election, or
specific candidates this year.
The tool will be location
specific, meaning that users will enter an address to see the judicial
elections they will be voting in and then be provided with key
information, insights and context about candidates, their views and the court system.
WNYC's Judge Your Judges will provide voters with location -
specific information in judicial
elections.
But this incident highlights a key feature of Facebook, to utilize personal
information to deliver
specific advertising to individuals, and only goes to underscore a critical weakness in the American electorate: that this
information can not only be used to manipulate an
election, but it can be obtained relatively easily, with few checks.
In either case,
specific user
information was merely a means to an end, a building block in a far more ambitious construction: a behavioral model powerful enough to manipulate people's activity and, potentially, sway
elections.