Elon Musk has taken over as the head of Twitter; the hand-count of mail-in ballots in a rural Nevada county is on hold; and legal challenges to the 2022 midterm elections have already begun. These stories highlight the Daily Rundown for Friday, Oct. 28, 2022.
Musk takes over Twitter – According to two people familiar with the deal for Elon Musk to buy Twitter, Musk has taken control of the company. Musk seemed to confirm as much late Thursday, tweeting “the bird is freed.”
With the Musk takeover came the firings of former CEO Parag Agrawal, CFO Ned Segal and Chief Legal Counsel Vijaya Gadde. Their departures came just hours before a deadline set by a Delaware judge to finalize the deal on Friday.
Nevada hand counting paused – The Nevada Supreme Court put an unprecedented hand-count of mail-in ballots in Nye County on hold Thursday. The court issued a three-page opinion siding with objections raised by the American Civil Liberties Union of Nevada.
Nye County officials were accused of violating a Supreme Court order issued last week requiring the count to be conducted in a way that prevents public release of early results before polls close to in-person voting Nov. 8. The ACLU argued that reading candidates’ names aloud from ballots within hearing distance of public observers violates the court rule.