Researchers warn AI could link Georgia voters to ballots
The number of ballots for which Springer said he recovered the voting order
A Princeton researcher said AI and publicly available Georgia election records enabled him to link many voters to their ballots. Georgia election officials debated redacting ballot identifiers and other measures to protect ballot secrecy before early voting.
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Max Springer tested whether AI could identify Georgia voters from their ballots using a $20 subscription and data obtained through an Open Records Act request.
“Last month, Max Springer ... tested the prospect of identifying voters based on their Georgia ballots with a $20 subscription to an AI large language model and data obtained from an Open Records Act request.”
AllegedMax Springer said an AI agent produced a pipeline that could analyze and identify secret ballots across Georgia and specified additional information needed to identify real voters' ballots.
“I had a pipeline to analyze and identify secret ballots across the state of Georgia and the agent told me exactly what further information it would need to identify real voters’ ballots”
- 1.52Mballots
The number of ballots for which Springer said he recovered the voting order
“Springer ... could recover the voting order for 1.52m ballots”