Lyft is discounting rides to polling locations on election day

Posted on 15/09/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

During the 2018 midterms and this year’s primaries, Lyft offered free and discounted rides to help people get to the polls. It’s expanding on those efforts yet again for November’s general election. On election day, you can get 50 percent off one rid...

Facebook will ban new political ads in the week before US elections

Posted on 03/09/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

Facebook has announced that it will block new political ads a week before US elections, as part of a new campaign to protect voting integrity. “I’m concerned about the challenges people could face when voting,” said CEO Mark Zuckerberg in a Facebook...

Google reportedly allowed ads that spread mail-in voting misinformation

Posted on 28/08/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

Google is allowing ads that show misleading information regarding voting by mail, The Washington Post reported. The tech giant reportedly took five days to review the ads in question before approving them. Now, some are questioning the ad policies an...

Twitter hides Trump tweet for potentially discouraging voting

Posted on 24/08/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

Twitter has once again flagged and hidden one of President Trump’s tweets, this time “for making misleading health claims that could potentially dissuade people from participation in voting.” In the tweet on Monday, Trump said that mail (voter) drop...

USPS appears to be retiring vital machines ahead of mail-in ballot surge

Posted on 14/08/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

The United States Postal Service is reportedly retiring mail sorting machines. According to Postmaster general Louis DeJoy, the agency is in a “dire” financial situation, citing significant falls in mail volume, “a broken business model” and an inade...

Study finds security holes in online voting for New Jersey and West Virginia (updated)

Posted on 08/06/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

States are under pressure to use online voting for the US presidential election when COVID-19 could remain a threat in November, but those platforms might not be as secure as you’d like. MIT and the University of Michigan have published a report deta...

Netanyahu’s party left Israel’s entire voter registry exposed

Posted on 09/02/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

Political parties have left voter records exposed before, but seldom on this scale. Haaretz has learned that Likud, the party of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, uploaded Israel's entire voter registry to the Elector voting management app,...

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