Re:Mark Zuckerberg: "Cambridge Analytica" (2017)
by toast0 on Monday September 14, 2026 @01:40AM
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Is it surprising or an indictment against democracy that reminding people the election is in N days makes them more likely to vote?
If you only remind people who are likely to vote the way you want, that's likely to swing the vote a little bit.
Maybe you do a little convincing with your reminder and that helps a little bit more.
Some jurisdictions have a blanket ban on political advertisement or media coverage as a way to reduce the effects of campaigning in an attempt to get a less influenced result. But we don't have that in the US and I suspect it would fall afoul of US free speech, and may be hard to enforce, anyway.
If you only remind people who are likely to vote the way you want, that's likely to swing the vote a little bit.
Maybe you do a little convincing with your reminder and that helps a little bit more.
Some jurisdictions have a blanket ban on political advertisement or media coverage as a way to reduce the effects of campaigning in an attempt to get a less influenced result. But we don't have that in the US and I suspect it would fall afoul of US free speech, and may be hard to enforce, anyway.