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In summary California worked with social media companies, created an internal database and developed threat levels to fight 2020 election misinformation. One post on YouTube claimed a voter registered to vote under a fake name. A tweet alleged thousands of 2020 ballots were tossed out. Another tweet claimed a voter used an alias to vote in person. These are just a few of two dozen social media posts deemed to be misinformation and removed from online platforms this year at the request of a newly formed cybersecurity team within the California Secretary of State’s office. The Office of Election Cybersecurity in the California Secretary of State’s office monitored and tracked social media posts, decided if they were misinformation, stored the posts in an internal database coded by threat level, and on 31 different occasions requested posts be removed. In 24 cases, the social media companies agreed and either took down the posts or flagged them as misinformatio ....
In summary California’s decision to mail a ballot to every registered voter resulted in record ballots cast in the general election but it was poor and diverse communities that fueled the increases. California’s poor and diverse communities fueled the state’s record number of voters in November, with ballots cast increasing as much as 42% in Orange County’s poor neighborhoods, an analysis of final voting data shows. Huge increases in voter registration and turnout swept through all sorts of California neighborhoods rich and poor; highly educated and blue collar; ethnically diverse and homogenous according to a Votebeat analysis of state and local voting data informed by census data. ....