Large-scale challenges to voter registration in Georgia have been made possible by a digital company backed by the former attorney for Donald Trump. According to state officials, its procedures are probably illegal and imprecise.

EagleAI, which stands for “Eagle Eye,” was established in the wake of the 2020 election and provides a technology that expedites voter registration issues. Anyone can look into possible mistakes on voter registration forms by using data that is pulled from both publicly available and commercially available sources. EagleAI automatically completes challenges to registrations with a few clicks to attach proof of purported disqualifying errors. After that, a community volunteer downloads them and emails the county election board. If a challenge is accepted, voting is suspended until the person reregisters.

The severity of these alleged problems varies: one voter’s name may not have a comma before “Jr.”, while another voter may even be deceased. According to election specialists, these differences are typically not substantial and are routinely fixed by the current mechanisms. However, echoing former President Trump’s talking points, EagleAI’s CEO, John W. Richards Jr., feels that these inaccuracies are, at best, exceedingly severe and, at worst, suggestive of widespread election fraud. Proper voters are disenfranchised by this deception, he believes.

“Let’s say that someone is voting for their deceased father—that occurs frequently,” Richards—also known as “Dr Rick”—stated over the phone in January with the media agency. People often comment, “I know how my dad would have voted,” when a parent passes away. I will complete his ballot. They have taken away your rights. Richards claims to have launched over 40 firms and boasts of having a background in family medicine.

The company is a node in a much bigger network of activities to dispute voter registration that are mostly spearheaded by Republicans or members of the far right. John Richards III and his father, Jason Frazier, of Fulton County, Georgia, are well-known for having filed over 10,000 voter registration challenges.

Jason Frazier assisted Richards and his son in the development of EagleAI. The CEO of EagleAI asserts that a large portion of its customers are members of the Election Integrity Network, which was started by Cleta Mitchell, the former attorney of Donald Trump, who gained notoriety for joining the call with the then-president when he urged the secretary of state of Georgia to “find” additional votes.

Even though there is no proof of widespread voter fraud in the US, many people in Mitchell’s network incorrectly claim that Trump was the victim of election theft in 2020.

EagleAI hasn’t had a website or run any open campaigns, therefore it has mostly operated in secrecy. However, more than a dozen EagleAI software lessons that the news resource was able to access and examine provide hitherto unheard-of levels of insight into the business.

Georgia’s Vote-Counting Process

EagleAI has been introducing disruption into Georgia’s vote-counting process by using a legal technicality that requires all challenges to voter registrations to be filed by a resident of the same county, as evidenced by the recordings and public records. EagleAI uses in-county proxies to get around this. The voter registration challenges are typically sent by email by these proxies, but EagleAI is used by activists in several counties and states to compile the official documentation.

Richards verified this technique when questioned about it, since it was shown in the lessons. However, he stated that these individuals are “helpers” rather than “proxies.”

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