Lump's Ground Game Even More Lame

Last week, the big news about the Lump Campaign/Elon PAC GOTV effort was that the app that canvassers use, Campaign Sidekick, crashes without fast internet. Like out in the boondocks where the campaign is targeting ‘lo-propensity’ voters. This is bad because canvassers couldn’t confirm door knocks in real time.

Now it seems even that wouldn’t help in some cases, as canvassers are GPS spoofing the app and Musk’s America PAC to get paid for contacts never made. From the Guardian:

A bootleg how-to-spoof video, made by an America Pac canvasser in Nevada and obtained by the Guardian, shows the apparent ease with which locations can be changed to fake door-knocks.

It calls into question how many Trump voters have actually been reached by the field operation, which uses paid canvassers, not traditional volunteers or campaign staff​.

The video, shared with a few hundred canvassers, walks through the setup: a user downloads a GPS-spoofing app to falsely place themself at the door of a Trump voter, fakes responses to the survey and takes steps to cover up the fraud by varying the survey responses to make it believable.

So the ground game, outsourced to Trump’s new pet tech bro, is being location spoofed, so that not even the laughably small sub-subgroup the campaign says it’s targeting is even getting door hangers. It’s like Lump’s 2-week healthcare plan delivered in a Robotaxi.