Comment by beedeebeedee

5 months ago

This is of concern to the community given the apparent overlap with the technical expertise of a DOGE employee, Ethan Shaotran, and his prior work for a Musk sponsored hackathon where he created software that could spoof ballot tabulation.

https://github.com/DevrathIyer/ballotproof/tree/master

Apparently, Shaotran removed his name from the repo and is now listed as a private user, but it can be found in the archive of the devpost page linked from the repo: https://devpost.com/software/ballotproof-vision

https://web.archive.org/web/20250204131222/https://devpost.c...

Info from: https://bsky.app/profile/cartwright776.bsky.social/post/3lhr...

Could this be used to spoof the results, and are there artifacts that could be discovered to directly link it or rule it out?

Here is an image from the Election Truth Alliance analysis that shows a possible artifact: https://img1.wsimg.com/isteam/ip/9087f51c-d3bd-4002-9943-797...

PDF of their analysis: https://electiontruthalliance.org/clark-county%2C-nv

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GuB-42  5 months ago

> Could this be used to spoof the results

I don't really understand how would opens source software that checks the validity of ballots, or even generate fake ballots help in committing election fraud? The hard part is getting the fake ballot to the counting location, how the fake ballots is made, be it by machine or by hand is not particularly relevant, anyone can do that.

patcon  5 months ago

The repo seems to describe something doing the opposite, no? This is someone who wanted to ensure ballots were counted, not someone motivated to spoof them, right?

EDIT: posted my concern on bsky https://bsky.app/profile/patcon.bsky.social/post/3lhrwuw6dy2...

  • rcpt  5 months ago

    There is nothing spooky or nefarious about the existence of that test suite.

    But that this skill set gets you into E's inner circle definitely goes onto the ever-growing pile of circumstantial evidence that something is not right.

    • smsm42  5 months ago

      Your point is if you're interested in writing code to verify the validity of elections, that is evidence to the suspicion your employer sonehow corrupted the election? That does not sound like a sane line of reasoning.

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jquery  5 months ago

I’ve been skeptical of claims that Musk rigged the election, despite Trump basically bragging that he did. I figured he was just trying to “own the libs” and make us get mad over nothing.

Since Trump is extremely concerned about election security I’m sure he will send teams of people to investigate these anomalies.