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[–] 15 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (5 children)

I'm calling it: they're going to have Palantir set them up with a database of likely Democrat voters paired with facial recognition and detain everyone who is a positive match on their way to the polls until the polling station closes.

And then they'll have the mail-in votes thrown out.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    I doubt facial recognition technology works well enough for that to be feasible, I think facial recognition technology using just cameras, esp. without high quality photos, is a bit like the polygraph/lie detector, it can give you some bullshit grounds to subject people to additional scrutiny basically on a whim, but has little practical application

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    That's the problem. They'll round up whomever.

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago*

    They'll round up whoever they like and use facial recognition as justification. My point is I don't think they can use facial recognition in a way that wouldn't also get false positives (i.e. without preventing MAGA votes). I think it's way more likely that ICE will just be used as voter intimidation in blue states.

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