ballotproof

BallotProof can be used to automatically reject and/or generate ballots, and some of the creators went on to get hired at DOGE. Maybe we're on that path already? https://github.com/DevrathIyer/ballotproof

This is of concern to the community given the apparent overlap with the technical expertise of a DOGE employee, Ethan Shaotran, and his prior work for a Musk sponsored hackathon where he created software that could spoof ballot tabulation. https://github.com/DevrathIyer/ballotproof/tree/master Apparently, Shaotran removed his name from the repo and is now listed as a private user, but it can be found in the archive of the devpost page linked from the repo: https://devpost.com/software/ballotproof-vision https://web.archive.org/web/20250204131222/https://devpost.c... Info from: https://bsky.app/profile/cartwright776.bsky.social/post/3lhr... Could this be used to spoof the results, and are there artifacts that could be discovered to directly link it or rule it out? Here is an image from the Election Truth Alliance analysis that shows a poss

Extremely misleading title. The software in question is the winning entry in a hackathon from 2020: https://github.com/DevrathIyer/ballotproof Inside that repo they have a script called `generate.py` which generates ballot test data. Look at it for yourself: https://github.com/DevrathIyer/ballotproof/blob/master/gener... It's a ~100 line python script that generates some test data. The last commit on is as naive as "hope this works". What a horrendously misleading title. It's just some kids making something with OpenCV to scan images. Ridiculous.

I'd encourage folks to go look at the source code for the referenced project https://github.com/DevrathIyer/ballotproof/tree/master. This does not strike me as nefarious in any way and there is a really valid reason for generating the ballot images -- testing, which is exactly how it is used in the project.