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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Hi all,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">As we watch the news coverage of the election, this series of maps illustrates how cartographic choices on election maps may skew perceptions, intentionally or not:
<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/10/30/opinion/election-results-maps.html">
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/10/30/opinion/election-results-maps.html</a>. Hopefully at a future meetup we’ll have time to look at examples from this election.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">And, with an interest in promoting information literacy more broadly, I wanted to pass along this
<a href="https://newslit.org/educators/sift/the-sift-news-literate-election-day-campaign-rumors-requiring-news-literacy-education/?emci=d214e257-4d1d-eb11-96f5-00155d03bda0&emdi=72d74506-5e1d-eb11-96f5-00155d03bda0&ceid=8304855">
resource</a> one of my colleagues shared about election coverage. It’s aimed at educators but has information we all could use. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Stay well,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Janet Reyes</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><br>
<i>Geospatial Information Librarian</i></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#1F497D"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">UCR Library | University of California, Riverside<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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