#Elections2026# 🗳 On September 19, Russian citizens visited polling stations at @Rusembchina, @RusEmbassyIraq, @RussianEmbYemen and @LibyaRussian. The main voting day abroad is still to come. Day 2 in detail 👉

Election odds have Democrats winning the young male demographic in the midterms after Trump won young men by 15 points in 2024. Trump said young men were happy that he bombed Iran instead of focusing on the cost of living. Follow: @AFpost

Election officials say years of false election-fraud claims have raised the threat of harassment and violence, prompting a wave of security upgrades across the country. Read our special report:

Elections are taking place in the districts, towns and local authorities of the German state of Lower Saxony - just one week after the far right's historic win in the eastern German state of Saxony-Anhalt and before two key state elections

ELECTION BETTING BOOM: WILL PREDICTION MARKETS SHAPE AMERICA’S 2026 MIDTERMS? Prediction markets are surging ahead of the 2026 U.S. elections, with platforms such as Kalshi and Polymarket attracting growing volumes of political trading. Supporters argue that these markets aggregate information and provide a real-time gauge of voter sentiment, but critics warn that heavy financial activity could distort perceptions of candidates and races. The big test in 2026 will be whether trading merely predicts election outcomes or actually influences them. Officials and regulators are concerned that wealthy traders could manipulate odds, spread misleading signals or undermine confidence in the electoral process. With states and federal regulators still battling over how prediction markets should be governed, the midterms could become a major real-world experiment in whether election betting changes political behavior—and potentially results.

ELECTION INTEGRITY: The DOJ is monitoring polling places in Minneapolis with a history of election fraud. The Democrats running the facilities denied them interior access and have been harassing them outside of the count as well. h/t @BreakAway_Show