Tuesday, October 22, 2024

Is Musk’s PAC Dumping Garbage Data on Trump?

Donald Trump's ground game in Arizona and Nevada may be undercut by canvassers working for America Pac using GPS spoofing to pretend they have knocked on doors when they haven't, according to multiple people familiar with the practice and a leaked how-to-fake-location video. The ramifications for Trump may be far reaching, given America Pac has taken on the bulk of the Trump campaign's ground game in the battleground states, and the election increasingly appears set to be decided by turnout. A bootleg how-to-spoof video, made by an America Pac canvasser in Nevada and obtained by the Guardian, shows the apparent ease with which locations can be changed to fake door-knocks, calling into question how many Trump voters have actually been reached by the field operation.

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It remains unclear how often Blitz's auditors are reviewing the roughly 400-450 canvassers. If audits are done every few days " a person familiar with the matter said it was at least every five days " and canvassers are together frauding several hundred doors a day, that could quickly add up.

The problem of suspicious doors in the America Pac field operation underscores the risk of outsourcing a ground-game program, where paid canvassers are typically not as invested in their candidate's victory compared with traditional volunteers or campaign staff.

Musk has so far donated $75m to America Pac in the three months of its existence. Roughly $30m has been spent on the ground-game operation to drive the Trump vote, with the rest put towards digital and mail advertising for the former president, as well as for down-ballot Republican candidates.

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On two occasions I have been asked, "Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?" ... I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.br />
Charles Babbage, Passages from the Life of a Philosopher
Originator of the concept of a digital programmable computer

#1 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2024-10-22 09:13 AM

Trump outsourced door-knocking campaigns in two key states to Musk-backed PAC. Up to 25 percent may have never happened
www.independent.co.uk

#2 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2024-10-22 09:17 AM

Frauds of a feather flock together.

#3 | Posted by johnny_hotsauce at 2024-10-22 12:05 PM

Battleground states have been ripe with garbage right wing polls that dump garbage results on a daily basis in an effort to swing the poll numbers to conOLD. They are flooding the feeds of poll aggregators to discourage turnout.

Don't believe the polls. Vote. Vote. Vote.

Don't fall for their -------.

#4 | Posted by Nixon at 2024-10-23 08:02 AM

"Don't believe the polls. Vote. Vote. Vote. Don't fall for their -------."

#4 | Posted by Nixon

100% agree.

It is all explained here.

#5 | Posted by Hans at 2024-10-23 08:09 AM

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