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Flaw in Right-Wing ‘Election Integrity’ App Exposes Voter-Suppression Plan and User Data
A bug WIRED discovered in True the Vote's VoteAlert app revealed user information—and an election worker who wrote about carrying out an illegal voter-suppression scheme.
In a since-deleted VoteAlert post reviewed by WIRED, a user wrote: “I’m probably going to be fired for this but I was hired by the Riverside County Registrar of Voters as an Election Officer in Hemet, CA. A WIRED analysis found that the app’s methodology was unreliable and prone to error, with experts warning that IV3 weaponizes public data and is more likely to remove eligible voters from the rolls than to detect widespread fraud—a problem they note is virtually nonexistent in the US. In records obtained by the nonprofit group American Oversight and shared with WIRED, in May 2024, an individual with the username Totes Legit Votes apparently used IV3 to challenge the eligibility of 5,000 people in Florida.
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