Georgia county to use program linked to election denier to flag ineligible voters

[Eugene]

Earlier DU thread: Georgia County Signs Up to Use Voter Database Backed by Election Deniers

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Source: The Guardian

Georgia county to use program linked to election denier to flag ineligible voters

Controversial EagleAI program connected to Trump supporter uses public records to flag people who shouldn’t be on the rolls

Sam Levine in New York
Sat 2 Dec 2023 17.02 GMT
Last modified on Sat 2 Dec 2023 23.18 GMT

A Georgia county on Friday agreed to use a controversial program to identify ineligible people on its voter rolls that is connected to one of the most prominent election deniers and a key figure in Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election.

Columbia county, which is just outside Augusta, is believed to be the first place in the US to use the program, which is called EagleAI, the New York Times reported. The software matches voting data with publicly available information like post office and death records to flag people who should no longer be on the rolls.

It’s not immediately clear how the county plans to use the database, but Larry Wiggins, a Democratic member of the Columbia county board, told the Times that it would help officials there deal with challenges next year.

Civil rights and voting groups have warned that the system is not reliable and could result in eligible voters wrongfully being challenged.

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Read more: https://archive.is/QOmoP

Original Guardian link (registration required): https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/dec/02/georgia-county-eagleai-program-ineligible-voters

[Think. Again.]

1. Any legitimately ineligible voter names should be removed....

....from registration rolls as a matter of basic housekeeping.

And ANY and EVERY wrongful removal should be immediately met with the full force of voting rights laws and constitutional rights violations and those cases should be brought against any official office comitting those criminal and civil offences as well as any individual office worker or government official complicit in comitting those offences.

The rule of "F*ck Around, Find Out" needs to be applied a lot more consistently with these people if we're ever going to get away from their B.S.