NBC News Partial Headline: "The Right’s Effort to Build a Voter Fraud Hunting Tool for 2024"

Eagle AI (Eagle Eye) threat to 2024 election

Voters unaware of threat to free and fair voting

Brace yourself for more Trump-inspired (and advocated this time for him to win in 2024) vis-à-vis “election rigging/cheating/etc. etc.” in based on this very scary story from NBC NEWS with this eye-popping headline and short video explaining the contents of this story that explains how the nastiness would have an impact seen in the two graphs above:

“Inside the right’s effort to build a voter fraud hunting tool”

Experts warn that “Eagle AI,” (pronounced *Eagle Eye” is a database that helps voters examine the voter rolls themselves, could drown election workers in unreliable reports of ineligible voters.

Introduction and key parts of this great piece (formatted to fit the blog): After years of claiming that American elections are rife with fraud, conservative election activists are preparing a new tool to take matters into their own hands.

Activists are currently testing a computer program called Eagle AI NETwork, a database loaded with voter rolls and other records that promises to quickly churn through the data and find registrations that may be suspect based on other sources.

The activists then personally evaluate the flagged voter registrations one by one — looking up home addresses on Google Maps, searching for obituaries online — and prepare lists of questionable registrations to report to local officials.

It’s the latest in a growing trend of voter fraud vigilantism, as activists seek to insert themselves into routine election administration processes looking to uncover problems and find proof of voter fraud. 

And while a handful of individuals in GA and TX have taken in recent years to filing mass voter challenges, EagleAI could turn that steady stream into a nationwide flood.

For several months, activists around the country, organized in part by influential Trump ally Cleta Mitchell and the Election Integrity Network (EIN) she founded.

They have been learning to use the program in Zoom trainings and organizing into state-specific teams in preparation for its launch, according to recordings of software demonstrations and activist meetings seen by NBC News. 

Some GA users began testing the software this summer, the meetings reveal, while FL, NC, NV, and TX are slated to follow.

NOTE: Cleta Mitchell declined to speak with NBC News about this article – I wonder why not? (Big smile included)

EagleAI is being pitched as an alternative to the Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC), a bipartisan, interstate partnership that helps states share data to keep their voter rolls up-to-date and was recently targeted by election conspiracy theories.

EagleAI has been shopped around to at least a handful of county and state election officials, according to interviews and public records requests, but it has so far found more fertile ground among activists.

Election experts and voting rights advocates warn that an activist-led strategy risks overwhelming election workers with reports of problem registrations generated by amateurs using unreliable data. 

And those reports may, in turn, intimidate voters or require them to jump through hoops to maintain their voting rights.

This story is based on documents, emails, records requests, recordings of activist meetings, and software demonstrations some of which were obtained by the liberal investigative group “Documented” and shared with NBC News, as well as interviews with state and local election officials. The activist meetings took place between March and late July, illustrating the program’s development, testing, and preparations for a national rollout.

EagleAI’s creator is retired physician Dr. John W. “Rick” Richards Jr., who said that his company is in talks with people in at least 23 states. 

He said his program is nonpartisan and insisted it will help, not hurt, election workers, and voters then he added: “EagleAI NETwork™ is a tool where citizens concerned with this issue can log in, see the data, easily review the data against publicly available data, and with a click send the data to their local election officials that would vastly improve the public’s trust.”

The rest of this story continues from this point in the article with this caption:

“Potentially thousands could face voter challenges.”

My 2 Cents: As I have said before, I am highly skeptical of this program or of any other AI-peddled products in our election system.

Also, as I’ve said before, AI - Artificial Intelligence’s first word “Artificial” means simply NOT REAL.

There are some good things with AI, for sure, but not when it comes to voting security or management – at least in my view.

It’s far too easy to tamper with the voting products and get the outcome some or a bunch of nefarious operatives want, and that is for their side to win no matter what is real outcome truly is – in short so that they never lose another election like in 2020.

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