In what appears to be the first case of a problem that experts have long feared, some voters have received robocalls that sound like President Biden telling them not to vote, a message that \u201cappears to be artificially generated\u201d and should be ignored, says the\u00a0Attorney General\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n
The message, which was sent on Sunday\u00a0sounded as if Biden was saying \u201cyour vote makes a difference in November, not this Tuesday.\u201d\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201dThese messages appear to be an unlawful attempt to disrupt the New Hampshire Presidential Primary Election and to suppress New Hampshire voters.\u00a0 New Hampshire voters should disregard the content of this message entirely,\u201d the Attorney General\u2019s Office said in a release. \u201cRecipients of this message are additionally encouraged to send an e-mail to the Department of Justice Election Law Unit (electionlaw@doj.nh.gov<\/a>) identifying (1) the date and time they received the call or message; (2) the origin of the call or message; (3) the content of the call or message; and (4) any other relevant information.\u201d<\/p>\n Kathy Sullivan, a former state Democratic Party chair who helps run Granite for America, a super-PAC supporting the Biden write-in campaign, said she alerted law enforcement and issued a complaint to the attorney general after multiple voters reported receiving the call Sunday night.<\/p>\n \u201cThis call links back to my personal cell phone number without my permission,\u201d\u00a0she said in a statement. \u201cIt is outright election interference, and clearly an attempt to harass me and other New Hampshire voters who are planning to write-in Joe Biden on Tuesday.\u201d<\/p>\n It was unclear how many people received the call but a spokesperson for Sullivan said she heard from at least a dozen people who got it Sunday night.<\/p>\n Advances in the technologies called artificial intelligence have made it extremely easy to generate audio recordings and even video recordings that look and sound as if they were produced by somebody else. This has raised concern about misinformation during election season.<\/p>\n