AI is everywhere these days. Can it help catch nomination petition shenanigans?

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Can AI help crack down on the elections shenanigans that turn up during nomination petition season,
as candidates seek signatures to get on the primary election ballot?



(link) https://www.inquirer.com/politics/clout/philadelphia-election-candidate-nomination-petitions-20230222.html

Candidates seeking spots on the May 16 primary ballot are now more than a week into the arduous three-week season of asking voters to sign nomination petitions. Then the real fun begins after the March 7 submission deadline, as competitors parse petitions, looking for ways to get opponents booted from the ballot.

Joe Driscoll thinks he has found a way to make it a little easier, with the help of artificial intelligence, also known as AI.

Driscoll, a former deputy city commissioner, developed a system of off-the-shelf AI products to compare petitions to voter registration records. That could help find challengeable signatures — like a Republican who signed a Democrat’s petition or a suburban voter who signed for a city candidate.

Driscoll said that could free campaigns to spend more time looking for the real shenanigans in petition season, like “kitchen-table jobs,” when petition circulators skip the circulation and use voter lists to forge names and signatures.

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This article focuses on Philadelphia candidates, but I'm thinking it would be handy to use this type of software in most urban areas in the country. What if this AI software had been used on a skeevy candidate's petition, like for example George Santos? He probably would have been declared ineligible before the election.