** If you are in Georgia ** help find vote manips-- snapshot your Facebook / social media

[sharedvalues]

Last edited Tue Apr 18, 2017, 08:23 PM - Edit history (1)

The best theory on what Russia is doing on American elections is using voter rolls to purchase targeted ads on social media.
Many of those ads are targeted at Democrats, to suppress votes.
In November, we know false Facebooks ads were purchased to display to PA African American Democrats. The effort was to persuade them to stay home -- voter suppression.

Here is a suggestion that the same technique might be being used RIGHT NOW in GA-06:

Link to tweet

To determine if this is true, DU can help! GA-06 voters are needed, because it is believed the voter suppression efforts have the names of every registered voter and are connecting those to facebook accounts.

To help:
- If you're in GA-06, look at what ads you're getting on social media, including Facebook.
- Take a screenshot (make sure not to get any data identifying you, just the ad).
- Upload to http://imgur.com/
- Post the imgur link in this thread.

It will be really interesting to see what ads are being purchased to target Democratic voters.

[sharedvalues]

1. Tech support:

Screenshots of areas of your screen
- On Windows, use "Snipping tool" (Click on start menu. In search box type "Snip&quot . Then paste into Paint and save to Desktop
- On Mac, hit Command-Shift-4
More details here: https://www.take-a-screenshot.org/

Upload here:
http://imgur.com
Click "new post". Drag your image to the window. Copy the link and paste into a reply here.


If you have more questions post here.

[greymattermom]

2. How would they know who I am?

My facebook name is fake.

[sharedvalues]

9. Friend network and face recognition and phone

Does anyone with a real name ever tag you in pics or post on your timeline?

Do you use Facebook from your phone? (that gives them your phone number and your address, via phone GPS and wifi networks, which can be cross referenced against voter data).

Is your face ever in any pictures? FB (and all tech companies including Google and Apple) are doing widespread face recognition to identify users and their friends by face.

Edit: the title of this article is a little alarmist but it talks about face recognition. https://medium.com/@jitbit/facebook-is-terrifying-8dc4a016b64b
If you want I can look for a link describing the data FB gets from your phone.

[NYC Liberal]

12. If you ever want to get an idea of how much Facebook knows,

check out your "Suggested Friends."

I had a ton of "People You May Know" with whom I had zero mutual friends, had never had any contact with them (not in my contacts, etc)...I had no idea who they were. I had no idea why they would be suggested to me. Eventually, I realized what it was: it was suggesting people who go to the same stores that I do. One of them was a barista at the Starbucks I go to by my house.

They also can track your browsing outside of Facebook. If you are logged in to your Facebook account (fake info or not), they ARE tracking where you visit. Have an Amazon account? Go browse Amazon for a few minutes and look at some obscure products, then refresh your Facebook and check out the ads.

One time a friend set up a completely new Facebook account with info he had never used -- different phone number, new email, fake name. Logged in, and it was already suggesting people he was actually friends with.

Facebook has an incredibly profile on you, even when you give it fake info.

[DK504]

3. Stolen voting machines

It is being reported a number of voting machines have been stolen in the Georgia elections.

[mythology]

4. No. What was stolen were laptops containing voter information

Not the machines people vote on or tabulate votes. It's the laptops used for checking in prior to voting.

[gopiscrap]

5. I have lost confidence in this nations ability

to administer a fair election.

[Laurian]

6. You and me, both.

Voter suppression, gerrymandering, dirty tricks. That's how R's win despite the change in demographics that should dictate their defeat.

[gopiscrap]

8. I say back to paper ballots

who gives a fuck that we don't know the outcome of an election for 2 or 3 days

[elehhhhna]

10. There is no precinct in America that has over 2500 voters, and less than half of them usually vote

[sharedvalues]

11. Plus tons of money on media and politics

Enabled by citizens united and the end of the fairness doctrine.

This is a long term fight for the country that we have ahead of us

[Leghorn21]

7. Thanks, shared! I'm not in GA - but between Caroline and Mensch, "heads up" have been issued -

it's so cool that you are technically able to gather proof of any wrongdoing (catfishing??) here!!


Caroline O.

IMPORTANT-> Georgia's Sec of State is asking the public to report "any and all irregularities at the polls" on Tues. Phone #: [phone] pic.twitter.com/rU6TB755XZ

Caroline O.

If you're turned away at the polls today in GA, report it. Website: sos.ga.gov Phone #: [phone] twitter.com/RVAwonk/status…
12:16 AM - 18 Apr 2017


Louise Mensch

Voter databases were washed w Vertica information to target voter suppression. Russia assaults America anew in Georgia @ossoff #FlipThe6th twitter.com/rvawonk/status…
5:13 AM - 18 Apr 2017

[Lee-Lee]

13. I'm not sure how a Facebook ad is any indication of hacking

I just checked and voter registration is public record in GA and you can get a list of all registered voters for any county from the county board of elections.

So it would make sense that both parties should be using that data to target voter efforts.

[mopinko]

14. public lists dont have all the info.

driver's license # or ss# and phone are not on the lists available to the public.

[sharedvalues]

15. Yes. Plus if hackers have DNC Vertica DB they have lots more info

[Lee-Lee]

16. A Facebook ad doesn't indicate they have that info

Facebook allows some pretty targeted ads, but they don't allow you to target a specific individual anyway, so I still don't see how it means that anyone was hacked.


Facebook generally lets you target a person by location, age, gender and what that person like. So you could buy an ad targeting all 30-60 females in a town plus 5 miles away who also like the Obama 2012 page.

They don't ask for SSN or DL and it's no indication they have any of that to see an ad.