Cross-posted from: https://feddit.de/post/10019763
In 2020, Revisor, a neural network-based election-monitoring software Revisor, analysed footage recorded at 1,238 polling stations in 29 Russian regions on polling day in 2018 in an attempt to retroactively uncover the electoral fraud widely believed to have taken place. Indeed, after counting votes and comparing them with the official turnout, the software found discrepancies in 11 regions so huge that it made it impossible for the election result to have been accurate, according to another Revisor creator, Vlad Matveyev.
“How can Putin be considered to have won if we don’t know how entire regions voted?” says Ivan Shukshin, one of Revisor’s creators.
Indeed.
But after reading the article, it feels to me like the “EU Observer” just wanted to insert “AI” as a buzzword. They used volunteers to count voters at polling stations. The “AI” likely was just vanilla security camera software that counted unique individuals appearing in a rectangle in the video frames.
Anyway, good for them, now there’s hard evidence in addition to statistical analysis.