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Singer K’naan needs you to vote on his behalf in the U.S. midterm elections

sudshr47 August 30, 2018

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You likely know K’naan Warsame for his FIFA World Cup anthem “Waving Flag” and his role on The Hamilton Mixtape track, “Immigrants (We Get The Job Done.)” Now, he’s asking American citizens to vote on his behalf in the upcoming elections.

Though the Canadian-Somali singer and poet lives and works in New York, he’s a Canadian citizen and his family still resides in Toronto, which means he’s facing challenges as a result of the Trump administration’s travel ban.

So he released a powerful video plea in partnership with The Love Vote, a nonprofit organization that aims to give the 50 million people like K’naan — who are unable to vote in the U.S. due to circumstances like age, citizenship status, or disenfranchisement — a space for their voices to be heard. Read more…

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Michelle Obama, Janelle Monáe, and more celebs launch voter registration campaign

sudshr47 July 19, 2018

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Midterm elections are coming and Michelle Obama wants everybody to cast a ballot.

The former FLOTUS is assembling an all-star team of celebrities — including Lin-Manuel Miranda, Tom Hanks, Janelle Monáe, and more — to help register voters across the country.

Together, the group has formed When We All Vote: A non-profit that strives to ensure everyone’s voices can be heard in elections both big and small.

“In my family, voting was a sacred responsibility, one which we never took for granted,” Obama tweeted on Thursday to announce her latest endeavor. “I’m excited to be a part of @WhenWeAllVote to inspire and empower all eligible voters to make their voices heard#WhenWeAllVote, we can make history.” Read more…

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Democrats introduce an election security bill that proposes paper trails and mandatory audits

sudshr47 June 13, 2018

As primaries ramp up in states across the U.S., concerns about election cybersecurity are mounting too. This week, a group of Democratic senators introduced a bill to mitigate some of the well-established risks that the nation’s uneven mix of voting machines and election systems poses. The new bill, known as the Protecting American Votes and […]

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A cyberattack knocked a Tennessee county’s election website offline during voting

sudshr47 May 4, 2018

After a distributed denial-of-service attack knocked some servers offline during a local election in Tennessee this week, Knox County is working with an outside security contractor to investigate the cause. The attack took the Knox County Election Commission site displaying results of the county mayoral primary offline during Tuesday night voting. The county resorted to […]

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Sierra Leone government denies the role of blockchain in its recent election

sudshr47 March 19, 2018

The National Electoral Commission Sierra Leone has come out with a clarification – and, to , an outright condemnation – of the news that their’s was one of the first elections recorded to the blockchain. While the blockchain voting company Agora claimed to have run the first blockchain-based election, it appears that the company did […]

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Sierra Leone just ran the first blockchain-based election

sudshr47 March 15, 2018

The citizens of Sierra Leone went to the polls on March 7 but this time something was different: the country recorded votes at 70% of the polling to the blockchain using a technology that is the first of its kind in actual practice. The tech, created by Leonardo Gammar of Agora, anonymously stored votes in […]

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Voting machine makers explain what they do (and don’t do) to make sure no one hacks the vote

sudshr47 November 16, 2017

 As the House and Senate continue to examine the wave of disinformation around the 2016 presidential election, concerns around the security of voting systems examine something even more germane to the U.S. democratic system. Read More

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