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FBI Has Looked at Using Questionable AI Tech to Review Signatures on Seized Mail-In Ballots

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An FBI press officer approaches the Fulton County Election Hub and Operation Center in Union City, Georgia. Arvin Temka/Atlanta Journal-Constitution/AP The FBI has explored using artificial intelligence to assess the validity of signatures on tens of thousands of mail-in ballot envelopes seized from Fulton County, Georgia, the latest push in the Trump administration’s unprecedented reinvestigation of the 2020 vote. The effort, according to internal communications reviewed by ProPublica and an agency tech specialist familiar with the work, focuses on comparing signatures on ballot envelopes with signatures on other election documents, such as registration forms. President Donald Trump has long claimed, without evidence, that the 2020 election was stolen from him. In particular, he has repeatedly claimed that there was voter fraud in Georgia, where he lost to Joe Biden by just 11,779 votes . In January, the FBI raided Fulton County, a Democratic stronghold, collecting abou...
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This Private School Had Students Scrub Floors and Attack a Fellow Classmate. The State Still Funds It.

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Photo illustration by Shoshana Gordon/ProPublica. Source images: via Renee Johns, obtained by ProPublica from Craighead County Sheriff's Office in Arkansas At her private school just beyond the city limits of Jonesboro, Arkansas, Mary “Tracy” Morrison demanded the attention of the 19 students seated on the floor in a circle. She then directed a skinny 13-year-old boy wearing a cartoon Mario shirt to sit in the center. “Raise your hand if he’s ever been mean to you — ever,” Morrison, the owner, prompted the other middle schoolers, and some hands shot up. “Most people don’t think you’re a nice kid. You lie. You lie all the time,” she told the boy. She encouraged his classmates to name things they don’t like about him. Morrison’s voice got louder. She knelt inside the circle just inches from the boy and swatted him. On the head. On the neck. At first he flinched and started to raise his hands to block her. But she snapped at him to keep his arms down: “You don’t ...
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This Private School Had Students Scrub Floors and Attack a Fellow Classmate. The State Still Funds It.

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Photo illustration by Shoshana Gordon/ProPublica. Source images: via Renee Johns, obtained by ProPublica from Craighead County Sheriff's Office in Arkansas At her private school just beyond the city limits of Jonesboro, Arkansas, Mary “Tracy” Morrison demanded the attention of the 19 students seated on the floor in a circle. She then directed a skinny 13-year-old boy wearing a cartoon Mario shirt to sit in the center. “Raise your hand if he’s ever been mean to you — ever,” Morrison, the owner, prompted the other middle schoolers, and some hands shot up. “Most people don’t think you’re a nice kid. You lie. You lie all the time,” she told the boy. She encouraged his classmates to name things they don’t like about him. Morrison’s voice got louder. She knelt inside the circle just inches from the boy and swatted him. On the head. On the neck. At first he flinched and started to raise his hands to block her. But she snapped at him to keep his arms down: “You don’t ...
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