“Roughly 5.5 million voters were deleted from rolls in two states, many without any notice or path to reinstatement, before India’s Supreme Court halted the program.”
The matching algorithm failed at rates as high as 93 percent and it still ran long enough to strip 5.5 million people off the rolls. It took a Supreme Court to stop it. Everyone worries about deepfakes because deepfakes are visible. The damage here came from a boring database join nobody was allowed to audit, running inside the registration system itself.