Relatedly, from December 2023: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
August 3, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Relatedly, from December 2023: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
New: I obtained and analyzed hours of meeting audio from the Board of Elections in Columbia County, Georgia, about its plans to use EagleAI, a "voter challenge" tool that experts say could be used to purge voter rolls
www.404media.co/inside-the-p...
www.404media.co/inside-the-p...
Inside the Plan to Use AI to Purge Voter Rolls
Audio obtained from board of elections meetings in Georgia show how a tool called EagleAI was pitched to election officials.
www.404media.co
November 5, 2024 at 5:12 PM
New: I obtained and analyzed hours of meeting audio from the Board of Elections in Columbia County, Georgia, about its plans to use EagleAI, a "voter challenge" tool that experts say could be used to purge voter rolls
www.404media.co/inside-the-p...
www.404media.co/inside-the-p...
A right-wing activist with ties to Cleta Mitchell pitched a controversial new program for hunting voter fraud to Georgia’s election board. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Georgia election board hears pitch from anti-voting activist on dodgy voter fraud tool
Rick Richards, who created EagleAI — a voter roll database that has been found to use unreliable data to flag voters for removal — is back with a similar new program: ELLY.
www.democracydocket.com
June 5, 2026 at 4:13 PM
A right-wing activist with ties to Cleta Mitchell pitched a controversial new program for hunting voter fraud to Georgia’s election board. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
This is the real threat of AI in this election, more so than deepfakes.
“EagleAI, which has claimed to use artificial intelligence to automate and speed up the process of challenging ineligible voters.”
Preventing people from voting will be more disruptive than some GenAI photo of a candidate.
“EagleAI, which has claimed to use artificial intelligence to automate and speed up the process of challenging ineligible voters.”
Preventing people from voting will be more disruptive than some GenAI photo of a candidate.
The little-known charity is backed by famous conservative donors, including the families behind Hobby Lobby and Uline. It’s spending millions to make a big political push for this election — but it may be violating the law.
www.propublica.org/article/insi...
www.propublica.org/article/insi...
Inside Ziklag, the Secret Organization of Wealthy Christians Trying to Sway the Election and Change the Country
The little-known charity is backed by famous conservative donors, including the families behind Hobby Lobby and Uline. It’s spending millions to make a big political push for this election — but it ma...
www.propublica.org
July 13, 2024 at 2:11 PM
This is the real threat of AI in this election, more so than deepfakes.
“EagleAI, which has claimed to use artificial intelligence to automate and speed up the process of challenging ineligible voters.”
Preventing people from voting will be more disruptive than some GenAI photo of a candidate.
“EagleAI, which has claimed to use artificial intelligence to automate and speed up the process of challenging ineligible voters.”
Preventing people from voting will be more disruptive than some GenAI photo of a candidate.
5/ Tools like EagleAI operationalize this: database matching that produces lots of false positives and auto-generated challenge paperwork. Even when challenges get rejected, they intimidate voters and drain election offices of time and resources. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...
A New Antidemocracy Tool
EagleAI is the latest effort by election deniers to use the upkeep of voter rolls as a vehicle to disenfranchise voters and spread disinformation.
www.brennancenter.org
April 10, 2026 at 1:34 AM
5/ Tools like EagleAI operationalize this: database matching that produces lots of false positives and auto-generated challenge paperwork. Even when challenges get rejected, they intimidate voters and drain election offices of time and resources. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...
October 6, 2024 at 2:35 PM
Eagle AI is also being used to remove people from voter rolls.
PLEASE verify that you are registered to vote. This is NOT a drill. 📢
www.ajc.com/politics/geo...
PLEASE verify that you are registered to vote. This is NOT a drill. 📢
www.ajc.com/politics/geo...
Georgia company EagleAI pitches private voter cancellation software
A Georgia company called EagleAI is trying to sell software to help cancel ineligible voter registrations, drawing scrutiny from state election officials and voting rights groups.
www.ajc.com
January 2, 2024 at 12:44 AM
Eagle AI is also being used to remove people from voter rolls.
PLEASE verify that you are registered to vote. This is NOT a drill. 📢
www.ajc.com/politics/geo...
PLEASE verify that you are registered to vote. This is NOT a drill. 📢
www.ajc.com/politics/geo...
New from 404 Media: audio we obtained shows how election officials in one of the most critical swing states considered using AI-powered software to assist with voter eligibility challenges. EagleAI is used by stop-the-steal Republicans www.404media.co/inside-the-p...
November 5, 2024 at 3:20 PM
New from 404 Media: audio we obtained shows how election officials in one of the most critical swing states considered using AI-powered software to assist with voter eligibility challenges. EagleAI is used by stop-the-steal Republicans www.404media.co/inside-the-p...
7/ Elias is holding the legal line. But the SAVE pipeline runs on AI automation. Cleta Mitchell’s EagleAI is industrializing the process of voter challenges at a scale no county board can keep up with. It’s timed to fire in the 90 days before November. The window is opening right now. #PlanToCheat
July 15, 2026 at 5:41 PM
7/ Elias is holding the legal line. But the SAVE pipeline runs on AI automation. Cleta Mitchell’s EagleAI is industrializing the process of voter challenges at a scale no county board can keep up with. It’s timed to fire in the 90 days before November. The window is opening right now. #PlanToCheat
Why DOGE has access
#VigilantesInc @gregpalast.bsky.social
#EagleAI
Senior legal fellow Cleta Mitchell of the Conservative Partnership Institute (CPI), a former legal advisor to Donald Trump, was the founder of the Election Integrity Network…..
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/EagleAI...
#VigilantesInc @gregpalast.bsky.social
#EagleAI
Senior legal fellow Cleta Mitchell of the Conservative Partnership Institute (CPI), a former legal advisor to Donald Trump, was the founder of the Election Integrity Network…..
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/EagleAI...
EagleAI NETwork - Wikipedia
en.m.wikipedia.org
July 8, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Why DOGE has access
#VigilantesInc @gregpalast.bsky.social
#EagleAI
Senior legal fellow Cleta Mitchell of the Conservative Partnership Institute (CPI), a former legal advisor to Donald Trump, was the founder of the Election Integrity Network…..
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/EagleAI...
#VigilantesInc @gregpalast.bsky.social
#EagleAI
Senior legal fellow Cleta Mitchell of the Conservative Partnership Institute (CPI), a former legal advisor to Donald Trump, was the founder of the Election Integrity Network…..
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/EagleAI...
3/ The tool is called ELLY. It is the rebrand of EagleAI, the voter roll purge software built by a man named Rick Richards that already drew fire for false positives before this. When the old name got too toxic, they simply renamed it and kept right on selling it to officials.
August 7, 2026 at 1:40 PM
3/ The tool is called ELLY. It is the rebrand of EagleAI, the voter roll purge software built by a man named Rick Richards that already drew fire for false positives before this. When the old name got too toxic, they simply renamed it and kept right on selling it to officials.
5/ Layer on the vigilantes.
In 2024, groups like True the Vote and EagleAI rallied tens of thousands of “fraud hunters” who mass‑challenged hundreds of thousands of voters in swing states - often in Black neighborhoods - with zero real evidence, just weaponized spreadsheets and racism.
In 2024, groups like True the Vote and EagleAI rallied tens of thousands of “fraud hunters” who mass‑challenged hundreds of thousands of voters in swing states - often in Black neighborhoods - with zero real evidence, just weaponized spreadsheets and racism.
January 27, 2026 at 6:26 PM
5/ Layer on the vigilantes.
In 2024, groups like True the Vote and EagleAI rallied tens of thousands of “fraud hunters” who mass‑challenged hundreds of thousands of voters in swing states - often in Black neighborhoods - with zero real evidence, just weaponized spreadsheets and racism.
In 2024, groups like True the Vote and EagleAI rallied tens of thousands of “fraud hunters” who mass‑challenged hundreds of thousands of voters in swing states - often in Black neighborhoods - with zero real evidence, just weaponized spreadsheets and racism.
NEW: Meet ELLY — the new controversial tool a right-wing activist pitched to Georgia's election board this week.
The program can be used by citizens to look up someone's voter registration status and can flag voters for removal.
But most concerningly: It uses unreliable public data to do so.
The program can be used by citizens to look up someone's voter registration status and can flag voters for removal.
But most concerningly: It uses unreliable public data to do so.
Georgia election board hears pitch from anti-voting activist on dodgy voter fraud tool
Rick Richards, who created EagleAI — a voter roll database that has been found to use unreliable data to flag voters for removal — is back with a similar new program: ELLY.
www.democracydocket.com
June 5, 2026 at 4:32 PM
NEW: Meet ELLY — the new controversial tool a right-wing activist pitched to Georgia's election board this week.
The program can be used by citizens to look up someone's voter registration status and can flag voters for removal.
But most concerningly: It uses unreliable public data to do so.
The program can be used by citizens to look up someone's voter registration status and can flag voters for removal.
But most concerningly: It uses unreliable public data to do so.
… and also: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Inside Trump’s Plot to Corrupt the 2024 Election With ‘Garbage’ Data
Cleta Mitchell and other Trump allies are pushing secretaries of state to pull out of ERIC and sign up for EagleAI ahead of the 2024 election.
www.rollingstone.com
April 1, 2024 at 2:25 AM
… and also: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
7/ How did this happen? EagleAI flagged voters for minor discrepancies—think mismatched addresses or small typos.Then Ziklag’s network turned those flags into challenges, overwhelming already-stretched election officials. Votes were delayed,tossed,or ignored. www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_Xd...
Vigilantes Inc. — Full Movie
YouTube video by Greg Palast
www.youtube.com
January 26, 2025 at 1:53 PM
7/ How did this happen? EagleAI flagged voters for minor discrepancies—think mismatched addresses or small typos.Then Ziklag’s network turned those flags into challenges, overwhelming already-stretched election officials. Votes were delayed,tossed,or ignored. www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_Xd...
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Meet EagleAI: Algorithmic Voter Suppression. It lets activists use web-scraped data to auto-generate thousands of challenges. The goal isn't accuracy; it’s an "artificial workload" to bury local officials and create "proof" for fraud narratives. At the click of a button, thousands are challenged
Meet EagleAI: Algorithmic Voter Suppression. It lets activists use web-scraped data to auto-generate thousands of challenges. The goal isn't accuracy; it’s an "artificial workload" to bury local officials and create "proof" for fraud narratives. At the click of a button, thousands are challenged
January 23, 2026 at 7:59 PM
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Meet EagleAI: Algorithmic Voter Suppression. It lets activists use web-scraped data to auto-generate thousands of challenges. The goal isn't accuracy; it’s an "artificial workload" to bury local officials and create "proof" for fraud narratives. At the click of a button, thousands are challenged
Meet EagleAI: Algorithmic Voter Suppression. It lets activists use web-scraped data to auto-generate thousands of challenges. The goal isn't accuracy; it’s an "artificial workload" to bury local officials and create "proof" for fraud narratives. At the click of a button, thousands are challenged
This is especially rich because they — Trump and power centers of the mainstream American right — ARE THE ONES CURRENTLY TRYING TO DO THE RIGGING. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
June 4, 2024 at 3:48 PM
This is especially rich because they — Trump and power centers of the mainstream American right — ARE THE ONES CURRENTLY TRYING TO DO THE RIGGING. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Meanwhile, one of the primary perpetrators of mass challenges in recent years, Rick Richards, creator of a mass-challenge software called EagleAI, reportedly met with the DOJ in 2023 to demonstrate the tool. “They like it,” he said.
July 28, 2026 at 5:26 PM
Meanwhile, one of the primary perpetrators of mass challenges in recent years, Rick Richards, creator of a mass-challenge software called EagleAI, reportedly met with the DOJ in 2023 to demonstrate the tool. “They like it,” he said.
Is 'purging voter rolls' a good use of AI? Asking for a friend.
Inside the Plan to Use AI to Purge Voter Rolls
Audio obtained from board of elections meetings in Georgia show how a tool called EagleAI was pitched to election officials.
www.404media.co
November 5, 2024 at 8:04 PM
Is 'purging voter rolls' a good use of AI? Asking for a friend.
EXCLUSIVE: Inside Trump’s plot to corrupt the 2024 election with “garbage” data.
For a decade, states have relied on a system to reduce fraud and boost voter registration. Trump's cronies are sabotaging it — and trying to replace it with something more MAGA.
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
For a decade, states have relied on a system to reduce fraud and boost voter registration. Trump's cronies are sabotaging it — and trying to replace it with something more MAGA.
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Inside Trump’s Plot To Corrupt the 2024 Election With ‘Garbage’ Data
Cleta Mitchell and other Trump allies are pushing Secretaries of State to pull out of ERIC and sign up for EagleAI ahead of the 2024 election.
www.rollingstone.com
December 8, 2023 at 2:47 PM
EXCLUSIVE: Inside Trump’s plot to corrupt the 2024 election with “garbage” data.
For a decade, states have relied on a system to reduce fraud and boost voter registration. Trump's cronies are sabotaging it — and trying to replace it with something more MAGA.
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
For a decade, states have relied on a system to reduce fraud and boost voter registration. Trump's cronies are sabotaging it — and trying to replace it with something more MAGA.
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
2/ The Atlanta Journal-Constitution got the records & Democracy Docket wrote about it. Georgia staff sent counties spreadsheets flagging voters for review, including a live voter marked dead and another wrongly flagged for voting twice. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Georgia election board hears pitch from anti-voting activist on dodgy voter fraud tool
Rick Richards, who created EagleAI — a voter roll database that has been found to use unreliable data to flag voters for removal — is back with a similar new program: ELLY.
www.democracydocket.com
August 7, 2026 at 1:40 PM
2/ The Atlanta Journal-Constitution got the records & Democracy Docket wrote about it. Georgia staff sent counties spreadsheets flagging voters for review, including a live voter marked dead and another wrongly flagged for voting twice. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Great reporting here. It's good to see this material in the public domain. Hope there is more scrutiny. We discussed the development of EagleAI in the report, DIGITAL RISKS TO THE 2024 ELECTIONS: SAFEGUARDING DEMOCRACY IN AN ERA OF DISINFORMATION, published in Feb: drive.google.com/file/d/15OcD...
November 5, 2024 at 3:24 PM
Great reporting here. It's good to see this material in the public domain. Hope there is more scrutiny. We discussed the development of EagleAI in the report, DIGITAL RISKS TO THE 2024 ELECTIONS: SAFEGUARDING DEMOCRACY IN AN ERA OF DISINFORMATION, published in Feb: drive.google.com/file/d/15OcD...
Well this is going to be a disaster https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/conservatives-voter-fraud-hunting-tool-eagleai-cleta-mitchell-rcna97327
Inside the right’s effort to build a voter fraud hunting tool
Experts warn that EagleAI, a database that helps voters examine the voter rolls themselves, could drown election workers in unreliable reports of ineligible voters.
www.nbcnews.com
August 17, 2023 at 9:30 PM
Well this is going to be a disaster https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/conservatives-voter-fraud-hunting-tool-eagleai-cleta-mitchell-rcna97327
5/ EagleAI is explicitly described as enabling mass challenges by non-official actors using unreliable matching, shifting power from professional list maintenance to activist-driven contestation. That’s a recipe for false positives and administrative overload.
www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...
www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...
A New Antidemocracy Tool
EagleAI is the latest effort by election deniers to use the upkeep of voter rolls as a vehicle to disenfranchise voters and spread disinformation.
www.brennancenter.org
March 28, 2026 at 12:47 AM
5/ EagleAI is explicitly described as enabling mass challenges by non-official actors using unreliable matching, shifting power from professional list maintenance to activist-driven contestation. That’s a recipe for false positives and administrative overload.
www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...
www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...