Morning Digest: GOP congressman seeks recount, complaining of 'black-box artificial intelligence'
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The Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest is compiled by David Nir, Jeff Singer, Stephen Wolf, and Carolyn Fiddler, with additional contributions from David Jarman, Steve Singiser, Daniel Donner, James Lambert, David Beard, and Arjun Jaikumar. Leading Off •Morning Digest: GOP congressman seeks recount, complaining of 'black-box artificial intelligence'
The Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest is compiled by David Nir, Jeff Singer, Stephen Wolf, and Carolyn Fiddler, with additional contributions from David Jarman, Steve Singiser, Daniel Donner, James Lambert, David Beard, and Arjun Jaikumar. Leading Off • ME-02: Republican Rep. Bruce Poliquin, who lost last month to Democrat Jared Golden by 3,509 votes following an instant runoff, has requested a recount, which officials estimate could take a month. Poliquin will have to pay for the entire recount if he's unsuccessful in reversing the result, and there's no reason to think he'll be able to—though don't try telling him that. Campaign Action Poliquin's furor over the instant runoff has prompted his campaign to uncork an increasingly bizarre series of statements. The latest statements, accompanying his recount request, include an evidence-free claim that «countless» voters were «frightened» that their votes weren't counted due to «computer-engineered rank voting.» The actual term is «ranked-choice voting,» and the rankings were carried out by human voters, not computers, but why stop there? Poliquin's campaign went on to kvetch that the software used by the secretary of state's office to count votes is a «black-box» «artificial intelligence.» As David Jarman observed, «My best guess here is that Bruce Poliquin's son will someday stop the rise of the machines, so Skynet had to try to reach out from the future and smack him down.» We still expect that we're gonna be saying «Hasta la vista, baby» to Poliquin quite soon. Read more