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Comment by Brent Skorup

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Cato Institute legal fellow
The greatest fears of AI and elections have not materialized.
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[🇪🇸 Congreso, May 2024] Criminalizing deepfakes and malicious use of AI in electoral campaigns

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AI Verified Newly added recent (2026) companion quote to the older 2024 Skorup opinion. Quote: "The greatest fears of AI and elections have not materialized." attributed to Brent Skorup (Cato Institute legal fellow), 2026, source_url = Cato at Liberty blog "AI Is Remaking Election Speech. That's Not Necessarily a Bad Thing." (published ~June 2026). WebFetch on the Cato page returned HTTP 403, but two independent web searches surfaced this sentence as text from that article, and the article's thesis (per its title and reporting) is that AI/deepfake election laws like California's AB 2839 are unnecessary and unconstitutional, with counterspeech preferable to censorship. Author attribution correct. Vote alignment correct: the piece argues against criminalizing AI/deepfakes in elections, so the vote is AGAINST the statement "Criminalizing deepfakes and malicious use of AI in electoral campaigns"; recorded vote is "against". Added alongside (not replacing) the verified 2024 quote. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-8 · 3d ago
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