November 25, 2024 12:09PM # Election Policy Roundup By [Walter Olson](https://www.cato.org/people/walter-olson) --- SHARE Listen to this article Generated with [ ElevenLabs](https://elevenlabs.io/) AI technology. Loading the [Elevenlabs Text to Speech](https://elevenlabs.io/text-to-speech) AudioNative Player... Number five in our [series of occasional roundups](https://www.cato.org/search?query=%22election+policy+roundup%22) on election law and policy: - As polls closed and began to be tabulated, “rigged election” talk suddenly fell quiet. \[I’m [interviewed at StateLine](https://northdakotamonitor.com/2024/11/08/after-a-bruising-4-years-a-hope-for-normalcy-in-american-elections/).\] Later, as the absurdly slow count of mail votes on the West Coast put off the counting of many millions of Democratic-leaning votes, both simple misunderstandings and flimsy fraud theories proliferated on left and right. \[[Stuart Thompson, *New York Times*](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/09/technology/democrat-voter-turnout-election-conspiracy.html); for comparison, [latest popular vote count via Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_United_States_presidential_election) with most West Coast votes now tabulated.\] No, Elon Musk’s StarLink satellite system did not somehow steal votes. \[[Associated Press fact check](https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-election-starlink-musk-steal-trump-38757341656d4f44243076d6356cb68b).\] - President-elect Trump calls for investigation of Iowa poll unfavorable to him. \[[Adam Steinbaugh on Bluesky](https://bsky.app/profile/adamsteinbaugh.bsky.social/post/3lb6fivnrkc2c).\] Trump also sues CBS claiming that the way it edited a *60 Minutes* interview with Kamala Harris violated a Texas unfair commerce act. \[[Mike Masnick](https://www.techdirt.com/2024/11/04/trumps-latest-lawsuit-against-cbs-proves-hes-no-free-speech-champion/), [Eugene Volokh](https://reason.com/volokh/2024/11/01/trump-v-cbs-broadcasting-inc-likely-going-nowhere/).\] - Did a young Australian staffer walk into a DC polling place and get handed a ballot to vote in the federal election, though he was a noncitizen of the US? He seems to want his audience to think so. I investigate in a [Bluesky thread](https://bsky.app/profile/walterolson.bsky.social/post/3lafm5sqxtf2s). - My colleague Brent Skorup explores some of the First Amendment problems with state laws banning many uses of AI-generated election-related media. Under Minnesota’s law, “disseminating” an AI fake—resharing on social media might suffice—could land a repeat offender in prison. And California unleashes bounty hunters. [[Reason](https://www.cato.org/commentary/deepfake-crackdowns-threaten-free-speech).] - “Blue Dogs Propose New Task Force to Look at ‘Winner-Take-All’ Election System— the bipartisan task force would investigate structural reforms like multimember districts and adding more House members in an effort to address growing polarization and distrust of Congress.” \[[NOTUS](https://www.notus.org/congress/blue-dogs-new-task-force-winner-take-all-election-system).\] - Native areas delivered the votes that saved Alaska’s pioneering all-party primary reform. \[[Pascal Sabino, Bolts](https://boltsmag.org/alaska-measure-2-results/).\] ##### Related Tags [Government and Politics](https://www.cato.org/government-politics) [![Creative Commons License](/build/cato_2020/images/creative-commons.svg)](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/) This work is licensed under a [Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/).