Bernie Moreno, an Ohio car dealer and blockchain entrepreneur, unseated Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) with a little help from his friends.
Coinbase, Ripple Labs, and other crypto firms poured more than $40 million into Moreno’s campaign — and their bet paid off. Moreno flipped the seat, getting Republicans even closer to controlling the Senate.
A majority of voters supported Florida’s amendments 3 and 4, ballot initiatives that would have legalized recreational marijuana and allowed abortions up to 24 weeks.
But neither ballot initiative garnered 60 percent of the vote — the threshold needed to fulfill Florida’s supermajority requirement. Ironically enough, the 60 percent requirement was enacted after a 2006 referendum... by just 57 percent of voters.
After an election observer in Milwaukee, WI noticed an issue with the tabulators, officials decided to recount all 30,000 of the absentee and early ballots that had already been tabulated.
The doors of one tabulating machine hadn’t been closed properly, CNN reports.
Young people are turning out in record numbers in Nevada — but the state has had to set aside a large number of ballots for “curing,” since the signatures on them don’t match what’s in the state’s voter database.
Nevada Secretary of State Francisco Aguilar told the New York Times:
“It’s mostly the fact that young people don’t have signatures these days,” he said. “And when they did register to vote through the automatic voter registration process, they signed a digital pad at D.M.V., and that became their license signature.”
Joe Biden raised hopes that the US would finally plan for climate-displaced migrants. Today, it’s still a glaring hole in climate and immigration policy.
