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ICE Emails Discuss Using Palantir-Supported Tool to Investigate Voter Fraud

Documents obtained by Democracy Forward show that ICE looked into feeding voter roll data into the ELITE tool, normally used to identify targets for deportation.

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The claim that noncitizens are voting in numbers sufficient to sway the outcomes of US elections has been a central narrative pushed by the Trump administration in the run up to next month’s midterms. All available evidence shows that noncitizen voting is vanishingly rare.

ICE Emails Discuss Using Palantir-Supported Tool to Investigate Voter Fraud

Documents obtained by Democracy Forward show that ICE looked into feeding voter roll data into the ELITE tool, normally used to identify targets for deportation.

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The revelation is found in documents obtained through a FOIA request and published this week by Democracy Forward, a legal advocacy group. The documents reveal that DHS officials have investigated over 150 nonprofit groups in search of evidence they’re helping noncitizens register to vote.

ICE Emails Discuss Using Palantir-Supported Tool to Investigate Voter Fraud

Documents obtained by Democracy Forward show that ICE looked into feeding voter roll data into the ELITE tool, normally used to identify targets for deportation.

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As the Trump administration has carried out a nonstop effort to undermine the midterm elections this year, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) appears to have looked into whether it could use a Palantir-supported tool to track people it believes have voted illegally.

ICE Emails Discuss Using Palantir-Supported Tool to Investigate Voter Fraud

Documents obtained by Democracy Forward show that ICE looked into feeding voter roll data into the ELITE tool, normally used to identify targets for deportation.

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Myriam Gurba (Serrano through my mom) @lesbrains.bsky.social · 14h

If you’re going to encourage survivors to publicly name and shame our abusers, then you better fucking be committed to keeping us alive when these men try to k*ll us for telling the truth.

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 19h

Over time, women have demanded that men both step up to do more of the caregiving and step aside to make room for women in "profitable" jobs. But what hasn't changed is the underlying incentive structure of financial capitalism and its devaluation of "unprofitable" labor like care.

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 19h

So, historically, men have used the privilege afforded to them by patriarchy to push the "unprofitable" work of care onto women, making it easier for them to hoard the more profitable (and thus higher-status) work for themselves. And companies encouraged this, because it meant more profits for them.

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 19h

It's telling that men would rather try to invent tech to replace humans' role in caregiving than step up as equal partners in parenting. Telling, that is, in that it shows how financial capitalism and patriarchy work together to dissuade men from doing "unprofitable" labor, like the work of care.

X post from AI industry insider Alvin Sng :

My wife: Can you read our baby a book?
Me: I can just play an audiobook from my phone.
My wife: But then it won't be in your voice.
Me: I can train a voice model.
Parenting hits different when you work in Al.

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MwahahahahahadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I believe preprints and papers that use AI slop in any form or shape should have this disclaimer on top 🧪

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Kala 🦕 @kalasaurus.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

We all know how the rules are applied differently.

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Bob Chipman ("MovieBob") @bobchipman.bsky.social · 14h

Everything about AI use-case marketing that doesn't make sense suddenly does when you realize they're mainly pitching for funding to rich guys with broad promises of "Imagine robot butler" and/or "Secretary/assistant who never talks back or says 'no'"

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geoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

catching a few people getting mad in notably oblique ways about this one and i would simply ask you to be serious about what it is you're mad about. is some anonymous account posting "let louisiana flood" the same as the president speaking at a rally? or do you think there are different rules?

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geoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

there is a deep moral and social rot in rural and red state america and people pointing it out are not the cause of it

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geoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

very tired of being told it is the responsibility of urban democratic voters never to risk possibly maybe by chance seeming less than respectful of rural red state life and then watching thousands in nebraska cheer on the president joking about a nuclear strike on me and millions of my neighbors

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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 08/10/2026

This is what government software can be again if we get the yahoo cowboy dudebros out

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Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 07/10/2026

You do not hate these people enough. But it's worth underscoring that this media environment is *the* epistemic challenge for every liberal or leftist dream that is trying to greenshoot its way through the dead concrete of our times.

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Zoë “Baddie Proctor” Quinn @unburntwitch.com · 05/10/2026

yes keep banning good posters over the mildest shit about dipshit tech billionaries that are responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths, that aren't even on here, that'll help your platform.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

a lot of authors have this idea that only their works are copyrighted. that's not true. everything is presumptively copyrighted. you have to have a substantial fraction of every word ever written in order to train a model. if you don't have that, you can't.

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"Jailed for violating banking laws", much like Hitler met his end after losing a battle with suicidal ideation.

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

it would be nice if this was accurate but it is not. nothing that even vaguely resembles modern generative AI is possible without mass copyright violation.

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

dennis hastert was a mass child Rapist and it's awesome he died. i hope it hurt.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This morning goons entered a private property through the gate and forcibly removed a man from his home. The incident reportedly occurred in front of his wife and children.The goons allegedly entered aggressively and did not present a signed warrant to enter the property.

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Thank you, Julie. If there is one thing I’ve learned researching institutional betrayal, it’s how I personally would want to handle a situation like this.

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I’ll also add that most of the heat should be directed at USA Today, but the journalists who participated in this breach of ethics also made a choice. Organizations are made up of people. We can’t absolve the people who do harm on the behalf of an organization.

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A lot of people in the comments are mentioning that USA Today is owned by Gannett. One of my big concerns is that *every* Gannett-owned newsroom might have access to my interview now. I will never interview with any of them again.

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As an expert on sexual violence, I have to add that these ethical violations are a nightmare for interviews on sensitive subjects. I would never recommend ANY survivor goes public with their story at an outlet that would do this to them.

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While digging around their website, I found their ethics policy—including a section on AI-generated content. I suspect that’s a part of what happened here. And I’m upset about that too! I did NOT speak to a journalist with the assumption that my interview would be funneled into producing AI slop.

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As an update for anyone who isn’t digging through the comments: I found more articles by USA Today journalists I’ve never met. There are THREE that used quotes from my interview recording—including many quotes that were never publicly published anywhere else.

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And still, all of it could have been avoided if USA Today respected the experts they interview. They could have been one of the only publications to get it right *from the beginning* by platforming the concerns that sexual violence researchers had as soon as we saw the DA's statement.

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After I posted this thread, I got an email from an editor indicating the story had been updated. They removed my quote and added new text about the developments in the case. I don't know if they ever would have done that without pressure, but it's something.

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The primary objective of journalism is supposed to be telling the truth. It is a DECISION on the part of USA Today to know that new details have emerged about this case and to refuse to update an old story that is still circulating and still shaming Jane Doe.

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I'm not linking the piece because I'd like for as few people to read it as possible. I'm writing about it here because: - I want to be clear about what happened to anyone who saw that article and felt betrayed to see me associated with it. - These are bad decisions that deserve public shame.

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