Georgia holds emergency meeting on AI exposing voters’ secret ballots

A researcher used public election records and an artificial intelligence model to match Georgia voters to their specific ballots. State officials responded by redacting identification numbers from public cast vote records right before early voting. This exposes a clash between open-record transparency requirements and the cybersecurity needed to protect secret voting.

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