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.
There was no need for an AI. There were multiple mathematicians, most prominent of them being Sergey Shpilkin, that highlighted multiple significant statistical abnormalities that strongly suggest (read ‘strongly’ as ‘most definitely’) Russian elections were rigged partially or in full as far as 2007. It’s not like Navalny and others gathered almost a million of protesters on the streets of Moscow in autumn of 2011 over nothing.
(Look up “Sergey Shpilkin russian elections” if you want to know more)
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.
@nm0i @0x815
This guy has a following. Not as many as Navalny, but still.