Show threadNonilexOct 25, 2024

And Washoe wasn’t just any county. It was a swing district in a swing state.

For that reason, Andriola’s hyperlocal primary had taken on national importance. Washoe County’s longest-serving commissioner, Jeanne Herman, was one of the first & only local commission members in the country to vote against #certifying #Biden’s win in 2020, “because the election was improper,’’ she told me. She was outvoted at the time by the 4 other commissioners.

NonilexSep 20, 2024

Inane

Pro-#Trump #Georgia #election board votes to require hand counts of ballots

Critics plan to sue, saying the new requirement would almost certainly lead to errors & could disrupt the process of #certifying the #vote in a crucial battleground state.

#law #ElectionLaw #VoteBlue
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/09/20/trump-georgia-election-board-hand-count-ballots/

Pro-Trump Georgia election board votes to require hand counts of ballots

Critics plan to sue, saying the new requirement would almost certainly lead to errors and could disrupt the process of certifying the vote in a crucial battleground state.

The Washington Post
NonilexAug 7, 2024

#Georgia Grants Local Ofcls New #Power Over #Certifying #Elections

Across the country, *#conservative* orgs & #TrumpAllies have sought to grant #loyal #LocalElectionOfficials more #authority over #certification creating the potential for another *disputed* & *contentious* [#illegal & #fraudulent] post-election period.

#Law #ElectionLaw #criminal #ElectionInterference #TrumpCoup2
#HarrisWalz2024
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/06/us/politics/georgia-elections-certification.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb

Georgia Board Grants Local Officials New Power Over Certifying Elections

Across the country, conservative organizations and allies of former President Donald J. Trump have sought to grant local election officials more authority over the certification process.

The New York Times
NonilexOct 10, 2023

#NorthCarolina #Republicans override governor’s veto on key #ElectionLaw

#NC #Republican #lawmakers on Tues overrode the Democratic governor’s veto of a bill that overhauls who runs elections & achieves a long-sought goal of the state’s #GOP.

The #legislation creates bipartisan boards that could #deadlock on establishing #EarlyVoting locations or #certifying results….

#VotingRights #democracy #elections
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/10/10/north-carolina-republican-override-veto/

North Carolina Republicans override governor’s veto on key election law

Gov. Roy Cooper (D) has cast the bill as a threat to democracy in the state. Republicans say it takes politics out of the process of administering the vote.

The Washington Post
Show threadNonilexMar 2, 2023

An appeals court in Dec debated whether #Trump was doing his job when he drew thousands of supporters to Washington w/falsehoods & told them they had to “fight like hell” to keep #Congress from #certifying the results of the #2020election. Undecided, it asked the #DOJ to offer an opinion.

The response took many months to craft — twice, the #JusticeDepartment asked for another month.

#January6th #Jan6th #SeditiousConspiracy #Incitement #BigLie

Published papers at TMLRJan 18, 2023

ANCER: Anisotropic Certification via Sample-wise Volume Maximization

Francisco Eiras, Motasem Alfarra, Philip Torr et al.

https://openreview.net/forum?id=7j0GI6tPYi

#classifiers #certification #certifying

ANCER: Anisotropic Certification via Sample-wise Volume Maximization

Randomized smoothing has recently emerged as an effective tool that enables certification of deep neural network classifiers at scale. All prior art on randomized smoothing has focused on isotropic...

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