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#disenfranchisement — Public Fediverse posts

Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #disenfranchisement, aggregated by home.social.

  1. Jason Koebler: Inside the Plan to Use AI to Purge Voter Rolls

    "At a public meeting in Columbia County, #Georgia late last year, Dr. Rick Richards explained that he had run a piece of software he created called #EagleAI against Georgia’s voter registration records.

    'When we reviewed the Secretary of State records, roughly 8 million registrations, we found 1.4 million typos,' Richards said. “There were 99,523 apostrophes where there shouldn’t be. There were periods in the initials […] There were 197,851 hashtags in the field for apartment number. Well, they won’t match.' Richards said he “offered to clean this up for the state for free, and they said no.'"

    #ai #disenfranchisement #voting
    404media.co/email/b2535640-161

  2. Caroline Haskins: A new tool targets voter fraud in #Georgia – but is it skirting the law? A tech company supported by Trump’s former lawyer is injecting chaos into the state’s vote-counting process

    "A tech company supported by Donald #tRump’s former lawyer has been facilitating mass challenges to voter registrations in Georgia. State officials say its methods are inaccurate and likely skirt state law."

    #uspolitics #EagleAI #votingrights #disenfranchisement
    theguardian.com/us-news/2024/f