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The year 2024 has been dubbed as the 'super year of elections' as countries all across the globe went to the polling booths. What has been the overall trend in the many elections that happened this year globally? Today's Number Theory explores this in detail.

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"In some moments of candor, Republicans made clear their intent: 'This action item today is going to be critical to making sure North Carolina continues to be able to do what it can to deliver victories for Republicans up and down the ticket,' House Speaker Tim Moore, a Republican, said on Wednesday in an interview with Steve Bannon."
boltsmag.org/north-carolina-re #politics #USPol #NCPol #elections

Bolts · GOP Grabs Control of North Carolina Election Boards, Rushing to Negate November Losses - BoltsIn their final weeks before they lose the ability to pass laws, Republican lawmakers gutted the powers of incoming Democratic officials and upended who runs elections.

«Researchers at non-profit organisation Reset Tech, Check First and EU DisinfoLab found evidence of co-ordinated posts about Georgescu on social media and stated that Meta had also failed to enforce its own policies, which “demonstrates Meta’s failure to follow the European Commission’s recommendations to comply with the DSA”.»

ft.com/content/2855bf6f-4b40-4

Financial Times · Romania’s cancelled election is a lesson in social media manipulationBy Marietje Schaake

Pramilla Jayapal to Alex Wagner/MSNBC:

There are always some #Dems who want to run to the center. We will never be winners if we try to be Republican Lite. We need to be strong Democrats.
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💯 The lesson of 2016: given a choice btwn #GOP Lite & a real Republican, GOP voters will always choose a real Republican.

It's not a winning strategy to soften & weaken our Dem principles & policies in a futile effort to appease RW voters & siphon some off to win #elections.

#Centrism serves no one.

"... to be clear, DOGE is an independent advisory panel that Musk gets to personally control, with no limits on its purview, which is not directly authorized under the Constitution or even by Congress. In other words, it’s the exact thing that Andreessen decried — inaccurately — about the CFPB."

Would be a joke if it wasn't so serious.
msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinio
#musk #doge #Andreessen #USpol #USpolitics #USelections #election #elections #hypocrisy

MSNBC · DOGE has exposed the hypocrisy of those who rail against unelected bureaucratsBy Ryan Teague Beckwith

The rally is currently ongoing. TEXT MORAL to 38542 #HurricaineHelene Legislative coup’: Poor People's Campaign protesters gather at NC State Capitol to oppose controversial bill that uses Hurricaine victims as a front for a power grab. People affected are sleeping in cars. Hurricaine victims relief bill, is being held up that would shift oversight of elections to the Republican state auditor STOP THE COUP! The people demand a clean Hurricaine relief bill NOW!
#elections cbs17.com/news/north-carolina-