Jeff Merkley on [🇺🇸 Congress, Mar 2025] Prohibiting dece…

Jeff Merkley

U.S. Senator from Oregon

The ballot box is the beating heart of democracy, and we must use every tool at our disposal to protect it. In the face of bad actors abusing AI to spread disinformation about voting to further dangerous voter suppression efforts, the FAIR Elections Act will help take on this 21st-century threat and stand up to the Trump Administration’s anti-democratic efforts to target eligible voters they don’t like.

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Jeff Merkley, press release on the FAIR Elections Act, June 12, 2026.

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[🇺🇸 Congress, Mar 2025] Prohibiting deceptive AI-generated media of federal election candidates

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