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FBI Has Looked at Using Questionable AI Tech to Review Signatures on Seized Mail-In Ballots
Propublica ^ | July 15, 2026 | Jeremy Kohler and Doug Bock Clark

Posted on 07/15/2026 4:44:51 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie

As part of President Trump’s continued push to discredit the results of the 2020 election, his administration has considered using AI technology to scrutinize tens of thousands of ballots seized in Fulton County, Georgia, ProPublica has learned.

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at propublica.org ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: democratfraud; election; stolenelection
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Is there any way that there could have been a more biased article written? Just the way the article is written makes me think the authors are involved in a coverup.
1 posted on 07/15/2026 4:44:51 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie
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To: The_Media_never_lie

AI is wonderful when the left uses it, but a threat to the world when the right uses it.


2 posted on 07/15/2026 4:47:36 PM PDT by grobdriver (The CDC can KMA!)
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To: The_Media_never_lie

The problem with mail in ballots.
The only verification is the signature.
It is verified by somebody looking at it and comparing with some on the record (if done properly).
that somebody is not a graphologist (there are not too many of those) and likely overworked and bored.
In this particular case, I would actually trust AI a lot more than some subjective and maybe biased human being.


3 posted on 07/15/2026 4:54:54 PM PDT by AZJeep (sane )
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To: The_Media_never_lie

AI is useful in making decisions to allocate one’s efforts.


4 posted on 07/15/2026 4:55:04 PM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: grobdriver

The Sour Grapes Express.


5 posted on 07/15/2026 4:55:08 PM PDT by MMusson ( )
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To: The_Media_never_lie

“As part of President Trump’s continued push to discredit the results of the 2020 election...”

No need to read further, is there? Do they think that I’m as stupid as a DemocRAT?


6 posted on 07/15/2026 4:55:52 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: The_Media_never_lie

Propaganda


7 posted on 07/15/2026 4:55:58 PM PDT by Fledermaus (United States of America : Born July 4, 1776. Died June 30, 2026.)
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To: The_Media_never_lie

“Most secure election, ever”

*****************

“What, me worry?”


8 posted on 07/15/2026 4:56:36 PM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: The_Media_never_lie

Tomorrow’s news conference will probably address this issue so the commies are running preemptive interference.


9 posted on 07/15/2026 4:58:04 PM PDT by DocRock
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To: The_Media_never_lie

Riiiiiiiiiiiiiight

If the democRATs/DemoKKKrats had their way, all ballot counting for the entire country would take place in the office of the Mayor of Lost Angeless.


10 posted on 07/15/2026 5:00:10 PM PDT by Ronaldus Magnus III (Do, or do not, there is no try. )
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To: The_Media_never_lie
"...without evidence"...because the courts refuse to actually allow any that was found to be presented.

In this case, the Administration is seeking evidence.


Dems refusing to see evidence

11 posted on 07/15/2026 5:00:49 PM PDT by ApplegateRanch (Mother Nature needs to give El Nino a good spanking!)
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To: The_Media_never_lie

I read your comment and had that very thought. I will say that I am
For anything that reasonably helps make election more secure and transparent.
The democrats are against everything that does this.


12 posted on 07/15/2026 5:06:49 PM PDT by Pete Dovgan
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To: The_Media_never_lie
President Donald Trump has long claimed, without evidence, that the 2020 election was stolen from him.

No matter how much you hate these people, you don't hate them enough.

13 posted on 07/15/2026 5:10:39 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Israel über alles.)
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To: The_Media_never_lie

LOL...

1. “President Donald Trump has long claimed, without evidence...”

2. But, when President Trump looks for the evidence that rectify their “no evidence” concerns, they flip to “it’s nothing but President Trump’s continued push to discredit the results of the 2020 election”

They sure like having it both ways.


14 posted on 07/15/2026 5:14:05 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: The_Media_never_lie

Propublica has done that for years.


15 posted on 07/15/2026 5:14:44 PM PDT by sauropod (Make sure Satan has to climb over a lot of Scripture to get to you. John MacArthur Ne supra crepidam)
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To: DocRock

Bryan Dean Wright’s podcast (ex-CIA) today stated that much of the speech tomorrow would deal with voting fraud and particularly focused on the GA mess, two illegal senators and so forth. Too bad Thune isn’t one of them.


16 posted on 07/15/2026 5:15:52 PM PDT by quantim (Victory is not relative, it is absolute.)
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To: grobdriver; Brian Griffin

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-026-36163-4

Handwritten signature verification is one of the frequently used biometric in administrative, financial, legal, and similar scenarios to verify the identity of a person. Unfortunately, the offline nature of this task makes it more challenging as it involves intra-signature variance, and various temporal and environmental factors. This paper presents a novel offline signature verification system (OSVS) called SignGuard. …They are trained using hybrid machine learning framework such that Support Vector Machine and XGBoost classifiers are integrated for the verification of a signature image in an offline mode. The performance of SignGuard is exploited on CEDAR, SID, and BHSig260 datasets, along with a novel dataset called DeepSignVault, such that OC-CSLBP and CS-LBP yields an accuracy of 98.77% and 97.46%, respectively.


17 posted on 07/15/2026 5:16:06 PM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s²)
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To: The_Media_never_lie

It’s an opinion piece disguised a news.


18 posted on 07/15/2026 5:18:53 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Israel über alles.)
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To: Brian Griffin

I’m sure AI will do an excellent job of pointing out anomalies. These people are acting like it’s going to send a robot out to execute them


19 posted on 07/15/2026 5:21:23 PM PDT by jcon40 (Most Leftist and Marxist protesters are really just Unwitting Globalists )
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To: The_Media_never_lie

We are seeing a full court liberal press to try and get ahead of Trump’s Thursday briefing to the nation, they are terrified!


20 posted on 07/15/2026 5:22:10 PM PDT by Skwor
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