40,000: Maricopa again? On Election Day, a technology glitch affected about a quarter of the ballot counting machines in a prominent Arizona county.almost as planned, that sparked In less than two hours, 40,000 tweets were sent out amid growing fears of political misinformation on Twitter under new CEO Elon Musk.
twenty five: Democrat Maxwell Frost, 25, became the first Gen Z representative to represent the United States. win Race in District 10, Florida. Frost, a former March for Our Lives organizer and gun control activist, is less than half the average age of members of Congress in the 117th Congress.
3: Three states elected their first female governors.Former Trump Administration Spokesperson Sarah Huckabee Sanders took his father’s old job in Arkansas, Maura Healy In azure Massachusetts, taking over from Republican moderate Charlie Baker, New York governor Cassie Hochul Defeated Republican challenger Lee Zeldin in a close match at Empire State.
$16.7 billion: The 2022 midterm elections will cost at least $16.7 billion at the state and federal level, the highest ever. according to to a monitoring group. This is equivalent to Mongolia’s national GDP.
