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A US STATE is investigating a voice message making false claims about election voting that appears to have been artificially generated and made to sound like President Joe Biden.
The New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office has revealed that it has received complaints about a recorded message telling them not to vote in the state’s primary presidential election tomorrow.
The message says that votes make a difference in November (in the race between the final candidates) but not now (in the primary elections where each party selects its candidate).
In a statement, the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office said that “although the voice in the robocall sounds like the voice of President Biden, this message appears to be artificially generated based on initial indications”.
“The message appears to have been ‘spoofed’ to falsely show that it had been sent by the treasurer of a political committee that has been supporting the New Hampshire Democratic Presidential Primary write-in efforts for President Biden,” the Office’s statement said.
“The message’s content directed recipients who wished to be removed from a calling list to call the number belonging to this person.”
The Office said the messages appear to be an unlawful attempt to disrupt New Hampshire’s primary presidential election and to suppress voters in the state, urging voters to disregard the content of the message.
“Voting in the New Hampshire Presidential Primary Election does not preclude a voter from additionally voting in the November General Election,” the Office clarified.
The Office’s Election Law Unit is investigating the message.
New Hampshire, along with Iowa, is traditionally one of the first states to hold its primaries, where Democrats and Republicans vote for which potential candidate they want to see represent their parties in the presidential race.
Artificial generation software that can create fake images, videos and sounds that resemble real people are a significant concern ahead of many important elections due to be held around the world this year, including presidential elections in both the US and Russia and EU elections in June.
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Fantastic recognition. Proper order too that these great women are celebrated. Too long have women been written out of Irish history. This is a refreshing change for the better.
Great article and great to see these women being recognised…. Fair dues to all! Good job they weren’t nuns or we’d be inundated with the anti nun brigade even though there were lots of well intentioned religious who did similar when the state abandoned their responsibilities.
@Jerriko17: One good nun or priest, remaining so, if they were aware of what was going on in their religious institutions, are guilty by; Association.
@ÓDuibhír Abú: Typical!!!!!!!… Seemingly only nuns and priests can be guilty by association. Maybe those voted for the government of the times were guilty by association too. What a load of…… !
Great women. Makes you wonder how much more of an impact women like these would have had on the growing state without the dominant church influence.
@Lad_ Well we know that they had no personal involvement with men at all being as far as we know in a lesbian relationship for decades .This.gave them the freedom to concentrate on their important work something that would be impssible for most married catholic women , under strict instructions from the church to be forever bearing and rearing children , while being simultaneously without proper recognition in law ,
Fantastic to see, especially during pride month!
Better late than never .These women came from privileged ,enlightened backgrounds for which we.can only be truly grateful .They had great courage and energy and achieved what they did largely one suspects because they weren’t as suppressed and depressed as so many catholic women were .
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