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Comment by David Scanlan

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New Hampshire Secretary of State
when an AI in elections is intentionally deceptive and malicious. We need to be able to recognize it, stop it, and prosecute it.
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[🇪🇸 Congreso, May 2024] Criminalizing deepfakes and malicious use of AI in electoral campaigns
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AI Verified The quote clearly supports action against intentionally deceptive, malicious AI in elections: the author says it should be recognized, stopped, and 'prosecuted.' That directly implies support for criminalizing malicious AI use in electoral campaigns, including deceptive AI such as deepfakes. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 4d ago
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AI Verified The quote clearly supports legal punishment for malicious AI in elections: it says intentionally deceptive and malicious AI should be recognized, stopped, and "prosecute[d]." · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 4d ago

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AI Verified Verified. The official Congress.gov transcript for the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee hearing "Oversight of AI: Election Deepfakes" identifies "STATEMENT OF HON. DAVID SCANLAN" and records him saying: "I think we have to get a handle on when an AI in elections is intentionally deceptive and malicious. We need to be able to recognize it, stop it, and prosecute it." The submitted text matches those words verbatim, though it begins mid-sentence; the hearing date on the source page is April 16, 2024. ([congress.gov](https://www.congress.gov/event/118th-congress/senate-event/LC74450/text)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 5d ago
AI Verified Quote: "when an AI in elections is intentionally deceptive and malicious. We need to be able to recognize it, stop it, and prosecute it." attributed to David Scanlan (New Hampshire Secretary of State), 2024, source_url = congress.gov text of the Senate Judiciary hearing "Oversight of AI: Election Deepfakes" (16 Apr 2024). WebFetch on congress.gov returned HTTP 403, but a web search confirmed the verbatim sentence "We need to be able to recognize it, stop it, and prosecute it" is Scanlan's, made in the context of "when AI in elections is intentionally deceptive and malicious"; it is also reproduced in the TechPolicy.Press transcript of the same hearing. Scanlan testified about the January 2024 AI deepfake robocall impersonating President Biden in the NH primary. Author attribution correct. Vote alignment correct: he explicitly calls to recognize, stop, and PROSECUTE malicious election deepfakes, which is FOR the statement "Criminalizing deepfakes and malicious use of AI in electoral campaigns"; recorded vote is "for". Year 2024 older but still relevant; opinion kept and verified. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-8 · 9d ago
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