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Outsourcing turns campaigning into a vulnerable link in the election race.
In the United States, a scandal is flaring up around Donald Trump's election campaign. It turned out that employees who work for the America Pac committee, who are required to go around households in Arizona and Nevada in order to agitate voters, use GPS spoofing to imitate their activities. The leaked video with instructions on this scheme cast doubt on the reliability of the data on voter visits.
America Pac, which is tasked with much of the fieldwork in key Republican states, now faces the threat of unreliable campaign results. These irregularities risk that voter mobilization efforts will be ineffective on crucial election days.
A video made by one of the campaigners in Nevada demonstrates how a GPS spoofing app can simulate visits to voters. The video explains in detail how to set fake coordinates and falsify questionnaires to avoid suspicion and checks.
The problem is becoming large-scale. According to sources, 24% of visits in Arizona and 25% in Nevada have already been flagged as potentially fake. In such conditions, it becomes more difficult to distinguish real bypasses from fictitious ones, and the detection of violations requires significant resources.
In an official statement, America Pac's contractors — Blitz, Patriot Grassroots, Echo Canyon and Synapse Group — said the committee is using technology to identify violations and "weed out dishonest employees." The company assures that when substitutions are detected, agitators are replaced, and fake rounds are not paid.
However, according to people familiar with the matter, the QuickBooks Workforce application, which tracks the location of agitators, does not guarantee protection from manipulation. Disabling geolocation allows you to hide your real location, which makes it difficult to identify violations.
The initiative to detect counterfeits faces additional difficulties: auditors check data only in case of obvious deviations. This allows unscrupulous agitators to work for weeks without the risk of being detected.
The data forgery scandal increases the risks of outsourcing field operations, where paid workers do not always share the interests of the campaign. In three months, America Pac received $75 million from Elon Musk, of which $30 million was used to campaign for Trump, the rest to digital and mail advertising for Republican candidates.
The GPS manipulation scandal exposes the fragility of outsourced election strategies: when election results are at stake, even the most advanced technologies can become a weak link if they involve people whose motives do not coincide with the goals of the overall project.
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In the United States, a scandal is flaring up around Donald Trump's election campaign. It turned out that employees who work for the America Pac committee, who are required to go around households in Arizona and Nevada in order to agitate voters, use GPS spoofing to imitate their activities. The leaked video with instructions on this scheme cast doubt on the reliability of the data on voter visits.
America Pac, which is tasked with much of the fieldwork in key Republican states, now faces the threat of unreliable campaign results. These irregularities risk that voter mobilization efforts will be ineffective on crucial election days.
A video made by one of the campaigners in Nevada demonstrates how a GPS spoofing app can simulate visits to voters. The video explains in detail how to set fake coordinates and falsify questionnaires to avoid suspicion and checks.
The problem is becoming large-scale. According to sources, 24% of visits in Arizona and 25% in Nevada have already been flagged as potentially fake. In such conditions, it becomes more difficult to distinguish real bypasses from fictitious ones, and the detection of violations requires significant resources.
In an official statement, America Pac's contractors — Blitz, Patriot Grassroots, Echo Canyon and Synapse Group — said the committee is using technology to identify violations and "weed out dishonest employees." The company assures that when substitutions are detected, agitators are replaced, and fake rounds are not paid.
However, according to people familiar with the matter, the QuickBooks Workforce application, which tracks the location of agitators, does not guarantee protection from manipulation. Disabling geolocation allows you to hide your real location, which makes it difficult to identify violations.
The initiative to detect counterfeits faces additional difficulties: auditors check data only in case of obvious deviations. This allows unscrupulous agitators to work for weeks without the risk of being detected.
The data forgery scandal increases the risks of outsourcing field operations, where paid workers do not always share the interests of the campaign. In three months, America Pac received $75 million from Elon Musk, of which $30 million was used to campaign for Trump, the rest to digital and mail advertising for Republican candidates.
The GPS manipulation scandal exposes the fragility of outsourced election strategies: when election results are at stake, even the most advanced technologies can become a weak link if they involve people whose motives do not coincide with the goals of the overall project.
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