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ABC News: How Twitter’s $8 verification plan works and why it’s facing criticism
"At Twitter, there's been a long standing disparity between what Twitter says a check mark is for: Authenticity," Steiner told ABC News. "And what people interpret it as: Authority."
"The new policy makes this division more confusing," she added.
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USA Today/Gannett: Voters must be patient for election results, Georgia group says
“It’s crucial every voice is heard in this election and that means counting every vote,” Aunna Dennis, executive director of Common Cause Georgia, said in a statement. “It takes time to count every vote accurately and that’s why Election Day is not results day.”
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Reuters: Elon Musk’s Twitter slow to act on misleading U.S. election content, experts say
Common Cause said Twitter posts from Republican candidates Marjorie Taylor Greene and Kari Lake should have included warning labels under the company's civic integrity policy, which governs misleading tweets about elections. Posts by Greene and Lake drew tens of thousands of likes and retweets on Twitter.
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Associated Press: Mishaps, distrust spur Election Day misinformation
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Associated Press: Election scrutiny high, but US votes without major hitches
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New York Times: Elon Musk Puts His Own Politics on Display on Election Day
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Video Links and Quotes from Today’s Media Briefing #3: Election Day 2022 with Common Cause
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USA Today/Gannett: A tense nation casts a vote for smooth midterm election despite Arizona voting issues
And then there were issues that voting rights groups described as "weird."
A priest in Toledo was unexpectedly checking the identification of voters, said Catherine Turcer, executive director of Common Cause of Ohio. In Summit...
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Video Links and Quotes from Today’s Media Briefing #2: Election Day 2022 with Common Cause
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Washington Post: Voting was relatively smooth. Now comes the counting.
“I am happy to report that today has been relatively quiet on the political violence front,” she told reporters late Tuesday. “We were absolutely prepared for more significant incidents, but they simply have not come to fruition.”
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NPR: Voting rights advocates say there have been no major concerns so far
But Goodman stresses there are no major concerns so far.
"These are things we see in every election cycle. There are glitches in the system. But election administrators have learned from the past and they have resiliency built in."
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CNN: Voting goes mostly smoothly on Election Day as baseless fraud claims swirl