Georgia holds emergency meeting on AI exposing voters' secret ballots
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- AI can identify voters' secret ballots using public election records, as demonstrated by a Princeton researcher with a $20 AI subscription.
- The flaw stems from non-random unique identifiers on cast vote records, allowing matching of ballots to voters in 98.9% of in-person ballots across 114 Georgia counties.
- Georgia election officials held an emergency meeting; the secretary of state restricted tabulation data to mitigate the vulnerability.
- The software flaw was known for four years, but political feuds over election disputes blocked funding for repairs.
- Proposed fixes, such as shuffling ballots or redacting IDs, face legal and practical objections, and changes come too late before early voting.