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Flaw in Right-Wing 'Election Integrity' App Exposes Voter-Suppression Plan and User Data

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App developed by right-wing nonprofit True the Vote to crowdsource claims of voter fraud exposed a security flaw that exposed the email addresses of all users who posted or commented on the platform.

The vulnerability, which has since been patched, exposed a California election officer who used the app to post about her illegal scheme to demand IDs from certain voters based on perceived citizenship status.

California does not require voters to show ID in most cases.

In 2022 True the Vote launched a web app called IV3 , which it claimed led to the challenge of hundreds of thousands of voter registrations.

A WIRED analysis found that the app’s methodology was unreliable and prone to error.

Experts warn that IV3 weaponizes public data and is more likely to remove eligible voters from the rolls than to detect widespread fraud.

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