The reason the Trump administration wants so much freedom to use AI for everything is starting to feel like no one in their government knows how to use any technology without it. This is stated in the report of the Democracy DocketTrump’s Justice Department is deadlocked in its search for fraud in the 2020 presidential election because they kept sending emails to the wrong address.
According to a report, the DOJ has begun pushing for the state of Oklahoma to hand over the statewide voter registration list so the agency can review it as part of an ongoing witch hunt to prove a baseless conspiracy that the 2020 election was stolen from Donald Trump. First, he wrote a letter to Oklahoma Secretary of State Paul Ziriach asking him to comply with the requirements to get on the voter rolls. Unfortunately, Ziriax has never been Oklahoma’s secretary of state – he is the secretary of the Oklahoma State Board of Elections.
And hey, mistakes happen. The problem is that the Justice Department didn’t realize its mistake and instead began tracking other Oklahoma officials requesting voter registration lists. Those emails went unanswered, which may be partly why the DOJ is there now to sue Oklahoma, along with 29 other states and the District of Columbia, for not complying.
Except… no one in the Oklahoma government got those emails because the DOJ misspelled the email address. according to Emails obtained by Democracy DocketEric Neff, acting chief of the Justice Department’s Voting Division, has consistently “(email protected)” instead of “(email protected).” Wow! Don’t you hate having your reputation constantly undermined when you work for the most powerful legal entity in the land and get key information wrong?
The situation is the latest in a long line of incidents that show that best practices and digital hygiene are not part of the Trump administration’s recruitment drive. Details emerging from the testimony of former employees of the Department for Government Efficiency show just how much money is at stake when it comes to the use of technology. Former DOGE employee Nathan Cavanaugh in a clip that went viral this week in detail how he emailed himself to deliver the documents to his personal device, then sent them via Signal to DOGE chief Steve Davis because “there was no other way” to do it.
Obviously, these people can’t be trusted to use AI for anything meaningful determining targets in war. But maybe they can use it to send email. It seems more than their speed.
