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Joe Biden reportedly more open to calls for him to step aside as candidate (www.theguardian.com)
Joe Biden has reportedly become more open in recent days to hearing arguments that he should step aside as the Democratic presidential candidate after the party’s two main congressional leaders told him they doubted his ability to beat Donald Trump....
Ex-CIA analyst accused of working for South Korea for luxury handbags (www.channelnewsasia.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/18118852
Columbus OH police officers shoot and kill a local man in Milwaukee WI outside the RNC security perimeter (www.tmj4.com)
Elon Musk says SpaceX HQ officially moving to Texas, blames new CA trans student privacy law (www.cnbc.com)
Missouri execution plans move forward despite prosecutor trying to overturn murder conviction (apnews.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/marcellus-williams-execution-mi…
Richmond Agrees to Ranked Choice Voting Ballot Measure (contracosta.news)
Tesla investors to urge judge to reject record $7 bln legal fee in Musk pay case (www.reuters.com)
Tesla shareholders will appear in court on Monday to argue that an unprecedented request for more than $7 billion in attorneys’ fees to be paid by the company is “outlandish,” the latest twist in a legal showdown over Musk’s $56 billion pay package....
'Blitz primary' could open up Democratic race if Biden drops out (news.yahoo.com)
Their idea goes something like this, according to a memo shared with Semafor that has been circulated to Democratic donors and bundlers as well as officials within the Biden campaign and administration:...
Open Primaries Initiative supporters to deliver verified signatures to Secretary of State (www.boisestatepublicradio.org)
'The way our districts are drawn is BS:' Ohio redistricting effort moves toward fall ballot (www.dispatch.com)
DC Campaign to Submit Over 40K Signatures for Open Primaries, Ranked Choice Voting (ivn.us)
Seeing as how some people here on Lemmy get upset at any mention of Ranked Choice Voting and respond that, in their opinion, it’s not perfect, and that we should therefore keep the voting system we have while we debate which alternative is perfect for several decades, allow me to preemptively respond....
Supreme Court allows cities to ban homeless people sleeping outside, even when shelter space is lacking (www.pbs.org)
The Oregon case decided Friday is the most significant to come before the high court in decades on the issue and comes as a rising number of people in the U.S. are without a permanent place to live.
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CT begins exploring ranked-choice voting merits, logistics (ctmirror.org)
Group formed by Gov. Ned Lamont examining CT moving toward ranked-choice voting (archive.ph)
Gov. Ned Lamont’s flirtations with the concept of ranked-choice voting took another step forward on Tuesday, as a working group empanelled by the Democratic governor to study the issue met for the first time....
A ton of job postings might actually be fake (qz.com)
A new survey found that almost 40% of companies posted a fake job listing this year — and 85% of those companies interviewed candidates for fake jobs...
Evanston ranked choice voting ordinance passes, hopes to push county clerk’s office (archive.ph)
On Politics: Brad Lander's scheming shows Eric Adams' weakness (archive.ph)
Lander offers less potential excitement than Myrie, a Brooklyn state senator who is just 37 and could make history as the city’s first Afro-Latino mayor. He might be less of a political brawler than Stringer, who has survived several tough primaries and can pull plenty of votes from his old West Side base. Ranked-choice voting...
Decriminalizing marijuana among proposed changes to Dallas city charter (www.dallasnews.com)
Some of the possible changes on the table are increasing pay for the mayor and council members, moving City Council elections to a ranked-choice voting system and extending the terms of district council members.
Campaign aims to put ranked-choice voting to a referendum in Ithaca - The Ithaca Voice (ithacavoice.org)
The Ballot Measures Aim to Reduce Partisanship. Can They Fix American Politics? (archive.ph)
Eight states are certain or likely to field election initiatives that would overhaul redistricting or give voters a greater voice in choosing candidates.
Fulop unveils pro-democracy government reform if he's governor - New Jersey Globe (newjerseyglobe.com)
As governor, Fulop would push for ranked choice voting and same-day voter registration.
Missouri politicians put a trick measure on the November ballot to silence your voice (www.kansascity.com)
JD Spain, Sr. wins Democratic nomination for Arlington County Board (wamu.org)
Spain’s victory came after the county’s second-ever ranked choice voting election. On their ballots, Arlington voters ranked three of the five candidates. In the first round of the tabulation, the person who got the least number of votes — in this case, Julie Farnam — was dropped, and her supporters’ votes allocated to...
State judge upholds most fines against group seeking repeal of Alaska ranked choice voting - Chilkat Valley News (www.chilkatvalleynews.com)
An Anchorage Superior Court judge has ruled that opponents of Alaska’s ranked choice election system violated state campaign finance laws in their effort to gather signatures for a repeal ballot measure....
Group tied to Colorado election overhaul drops $1 million in last-minute primary spending (www.denverpost.com)
The group is backed by Kent Thiry, the Denver-based former CEO of the dialysis giant DaVita who’s supporting a ballot measure to overhaul the state’s election process. In a statement to The Denver Post on Saturday morning, Thiry wrote that it was “time for many of us to stand up for the majority in the middle. We are...
A woman is accused of attempting to drown a 3-year-old child in possible hate crime incident (www.cnn.com)
A woman in Texas has been charged with attempted capital murder and injury to a child after trying to drown a 3-year-old child at an apartment complex pool and making racial statements, according to police....
Police: Vandal spray paints ‘F--- Elon’ on 34 Tesla Cybertrucks in Fort Lauderdale (www.local10.com)
Police said 34 new Tesla Cybertrucks were damaged. The owner parked the exotic cars in a parking lot in Fort Lauderdale....
Chemicals from East Palestine derailment spread to 16 US states, data shows (www.theguardian.com)
'Mysterious' monolith similar to column seen in 2020 appears in Las Vegas desert: Police (abcnews.go.com)
Rare tissue-damaging bacteria spreads in Japan, kills in 48 hours (www.japantimes.co.jp)
Thread with more comments, didn’t see it before: lemmy.world/post/16594476?scrollToComments=true
Mozilla restores Firefox add-ons banned in Russia (www.theregister.com)
Mozilla has reinstated previously banned Firefox add-ons in Russia that were designed to circumvent state censorship, such as a VPN and a tool to access Tor websites....
Microsoft in damage-control mode, says it will prioritize security over AI (arstechnica.com)
Whistleblower Says Microsoft Dismissed Warnings About a Security Flaw That Russians Later Used to Hack U.S. Government (www.propublica.org)
Cop busted for unauthorized use of Clearview AI facial recognition resigns (arstechnica.com)
Wyoming mayoral candidate wants to govern by AI bot (arstechnica.com)
Ukrainian warplane fires weapon at target inside Russia for first time (news.sky.com)
“While damage assessment is still occurring, it is confirmed as a direct hit,” a Ukrainian military source tells Sky News....
Morale plummets inside The Washington Post as staffers express alarm over publisher’s attempts to squash story (www.cnn.com)