https://apnews.com/be4068a2038847f3bdbe59fe40dfd73a

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — The Latest on Nigeria’s election (all times local):

3:30 p.m.

Nigerian security authorities are now openly acknowledging an extremist attack in the northeast city of Maiduguri shortly before voting began on Saturday.

A statement by Borno state police says Boko Haram extremists “attempted to infiltrate” the state capital by launching artillery fire, likely to disrupt the elections.

The statement says “some missiles strayed into vulnerable locations” but there were no casualties and the extremists retreated.

Security sources, however, say one soldier was killed and four wounded.

Nigerian security forces earlier Saturday said the reported blasts had been their own in a show of force to deter extremists.

— Ibrahim Alfa Abdulrahim

https://us.cnn.com/2019/02/23/opinions/trump-contest-2020-election-loss-geltzer/index.html

CNN HAS BECOME THE RUSSIAN BOTS

Remember, when Trump was merely a private citizen running for President in 2016, he became the first presidential candidate in recent memory to refuse to commit that he'd honor the results of the election if he lost. Now, he occupies the Oval Office. He's the commander in chief of the most powerful military on Earth. If he even hints at contesting the election result in 2020, as he suggested he might in 2016, he'd be doing so not as an outsider but as a leader with the vast resources of the US government potentially at his disposal.

While many of us worry that President Trump has fallen woefully short in addressing foreign election interference through social media that can change American voters' minds, there's nonetheless an obvious imperative to respect the actual vote tally unless the intelligence community indicates that malicious actors have directly altered it (which would be unprecedented).