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Topics

US elections administration

Attention around US elections administration is about usual, and has risen over the last 24 hours.

Redistricting, voting rights, ballots and how American elections are run.

PoliticsUS

Signals

What moved

The largest movements across forecasts, attention, discussion sentiment and reporting in the last 24 hours, each compared with how much that topic usually moves.

  1. AttentionPublic discussionLemmy

    Attention rose

    2.1× its usual variation — larger than usual

    87mentions

    +85 mentionsup over the last 24 hours

7 changes were compared.

Across signals

No relationships between signals were detected this week. Checked 1 topic: 0 had a forecast contract moving well outside its usual range and 1 had unusually high public attention, and none of them showed a second layer doing something measurable at the same time.

What was reported

Occurrences reported on this topic, the most widely reported first. One entry per occurrence, however many outlets carried it, and the count on each is the outlets that reported it independently.

  1. US appeals court sceptical of Trump’s lawsuit over California voter rolls opens in a new tab

    1 independent origin · low confidence

    Al Jazeera English

What people are discussing

Posts and shared links on the discussion platforms this site reads that are about this topic, over the last two days, the most discussed first. Titles are the platform's own. Counts are the platform's where it publishes them, and otherwise the comments or shares this site read; none of it is a figure this site calculates.

  1. Can somedy explain to me the issue with the voter ID law they want to pass in the US? opens in a new tab

    153 commentsLemmydiscussion opens in a new tab

  2. DOJ Opens Criminal Probe of California Mail-In Ballots Despite Judge’s Order opens in a new tab

    12 commentsLemmydiscussion opens in a new tab

  3. Support dwindles for wealth tax, voter ID ballot measures, new poll shows opens in a new tab

    2 commentsLemmydiscussion opens in a new tab

7 more posts — show them
  1. Over 40% of names on DOJ's 'noncitizen' voter list are not on California's voter rolls, analysis finds opens in a new tab

    shared in 1 postMastodon

  2. More than 40% of names on DOJ list of alleged noncitizens don't appear on California's voter rolls, analysis finds opens in a new tab

    shared in 1 postMastodon

  3. elect.horse opens in a new tab

    shared in 1 postMastodon

  4. Alabama Republicans thought they had drawn a safe US House seat. A Black congressman had other ideas — The Associated Press opens in a new tab

    shared in 1 postMastodon

  5. ‘Atmosphere of fear’: Trump moves to curtail voting rights ahead of the midterms – France 24 opens in a new tab

    shared in 1 postMastodon

  6. What to know about California’s midterm elections opens in a new tab

    shared in 1 postMastodon

  7. Florida election officials alarmed at slow delivery of mail-in ballots opens in a new tab

    shared in 1 postMastodon

Forecast contracts

One row per source's own question. These are listed side by side for comparison and are not combined into a single figure — each source is answering its own question, in its own words.

  1. Forecast marketsManifold Markets
    15%unlikely±0.0 ptsunchanged over the last 24 hours

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Sources

5 contributing sources — view breakdown

Attention

  • Hacker NewsPublic discussion50.0
  • Future Index internal search and pageviewsSearch & activity65.9
  • LemmyPublic discussion73.8
  • MastodonPublic discussion52.5
  • Wikimedia Pageviews (Analytics API)Search & activity67.6

How the attention figure is calculated · method version 3.0.0 · What these figures do not say