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Election-deepfake law should target false statements about voting mechanics narrowly. Broad "deceptive content" bans keep losing in court.
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Jul 12, 2026
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The specific delta between this position and the current mainstream approaches of both major parties.
State-level election-deepfake disclosure laws have generally passed with broad, often bipartisan support in state legislatures. This is more a "protect elections" consensus issue at the state level than a partisan fight. The federal picture splits along more predictable lines: the FCC's broader AI-disclosure rulemaking for political broadcast ads passed on a party-line 3-2 vote and appears to have stalled under the current Republican FCC chairman's deregulatory posture, while the FCC's TCPA robocall ruling (targeting AI-cloned voices) remains bipartisan-consensus law still in force. The First Amendment challenges that have struck down broad state laws (Kohls v. Bonta, Hawaii's Act 191) were brought invoking free-speech principles that cut across party lines rather than splitting along them. This isn't ACLU-style progressive litigation against conservative laws or the reverse. The Innovation Party's delta: its proposed narrow scope (voting-mechanics falsehoods only) is more restrained than many state laws currently on the books from both blue and red states, specifically because the broader versions keep losing in court regardless of which state passed them.
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