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How one battleground state is rolling the dice, literally, on election security

Michigan gears up for November

Conducting a "risk-limiting audit" is emerging as one of the best practices in the world of election security — and it actually does involve officials tossing dice, part of the process for generating a large sample of ballots to be recounted to check the accuracy of the initial result. Election experts say the method is great at revealing mistakes or hacking that affected how machines tallied people's votes. Our friends at Newsy have this 5-minute video explaining how Michigan, a 2020 presidential tossup, is testing the system.


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Veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan Wars Sue New York After Being Denied the Right to Vote
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Veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan Wars Sue New York After Being Denied the Right to Vote

NEW YORK CITY — Outside the Southern District of New York courthouse in Foley Square, Independent Veterans of America Founder Paul Rieckhoff and Army veteran Kristen Rouse, along with their attorneys, announced a lawsuit Wednesday challenging New York's continued use of closed partisan primaries.

The suit was officially filed Thursday. Independent Veterans of America and the Independent Voter Project joined the suit as organizational plaintiffs. The case is Rieckhoff v. Berger, No. 26-cv-08655.

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AI Agents Could Save Lives—If We Let Them

The warnings about artificial intelligence keep getting louder.

The companies building the world’s most powerful AI systems are reporting troubling behavior from their own creations. And some of the researchers closest to frontier AI development warn that powerful new systems could “cause human extinction.”

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