After blowing millions on Fat Elvis' campaign for president, Gingrich backer Shelly Adelson's super PAC is back with some cool voter suppression integrity tech:
The app, called VoteStand, allows users to submit their own photo
or video along with text to report “incidents” they see at their local
polling place. It notes only in the terms of service that it is illegal
to take photos or video inside of a polling station in many states.
Users are able to agree to those terms of service without reading them,
and there is no additional warning to make sure one complies with local
election laws before a photo is taken. The app says all incidents
submitted will be investigated, although it is unclear by whom.
One of the incidents submitted to VoteStand warned of ACORNS on the ground in Texas.
The app also allows a user to browse the latest incidents, which on
Friday included one photo that showed a picture of a grassy lawn
littered with acorns. The “incident,” from Houston, Tx., home of Tea
Party poll-watching group True the Vote, was titled ”A whole lot of ACORNS!” a likely reference to the now defunct voter registration group.
It’s unclear how many incidents Winning Our Future expects to
receive, as voter fraud is rare. An exhaustive search done by News21
this year found only 2,086 cases of even alleged voting fraud
since 2000 across the entire country. Over that time period, upwards of
620 million votes were cast. That’s a fraud rate of roughly 0.0003%.
VoteStand is not the only smartphone app conservatives will be using on Election Day. The Romney campaign has launched Project ORCA,
which will arm 34,000 poll watchers with apps allowing them to keep
track of who is and isn’t voting at precincts around the country.
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