Warner on Election Threats; Speaker Scott Interview on PodVA; Video: JD Spain Talks to Arlington Dems
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Interview with Speaker Don Scott on PodVA
Michael Pope and Lauren Burke interview the 58th Speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates, Speaker Don Scott on his first session as Speaker:
Warner on 2024 Election Concerns: AI Disinfo, Threats to Poll Workers
By Ariana Figueroa for the Virginia Mercury 🗳️ Senators on the U.S. Senate Rules Committee expressed concerns Tuesday that poll workers may need protection and that artificial intelligence could interfere in the fall elections.
Leading members of the committee said AI has already been used to promote disinformation that has interfered with elections, while elections workers have for years experienced intimidation. Both issues seriously threaten election integrity, the senators said.
“We are very concerned about what we have seen in just snippets of ads and videos that have gone out that attack candidates on both sides of the aisle, but they are complete deep fakes and not the actual candidate and you can’t even tell it’s not the candidate,” Rules Committee Chair Amy Klobuchar said.
Klobuchar, a Minnesota Democrat, said AI is already being used to interfere with elections, noting voters in New Hampshire received a robocall in the voice of President Joe Biden telling them not to vote in the state’s presidential primary.
Sen. Mark Warner, a Virginia Democrat who also chairs the Senate Intelligence Committee, said he is concerned that intelligence agencies have indicated that “we are potentially less protected as we go into 2024 in terms of the security of our elections than we were during 2020.”
“That’s a pretty stunning fact,” Warner said. READ ENTIRE
Video: JD Spain Speaks to Arlington Dems
Days before kicking off his campaign for Arlington County Board, Marine veterans and former Arlington NAACP President JD Spain spoke to Democrats in Arlington. Information on Spain’s campaign kickoff event on Saturday, March 16, can be found here.
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