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How Do You Vote? 50 Million Google Images Give a Clue (nytimes.com)
Artificial Intelligence is now being used to scan millions of pictures taken by Google Street View to glean insights like income or voting patterns, The New York Times reports. In a Stanford project, computers scanned millions of pictures of parked cars to predict voting patterns and pollution. From the report: The Stanford project gives a glimpse at the potential. By pulling the vehicles' makes, models and years from the images, and then linking that information with other data sources, the project was able to predict factors like pollution and voting patterns at the neighborhood level. "This kind of social analysis using image data is a new tool to draw insights," said Timnit Gebru, who led the Stanford research effort. The research has been published in stages, the most recent in late November in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. In the end, the car-image project involved 50 million images of street scenes gathered from Google Street View. In them, 22 million cars were identified, and then classified into more than 2,600 categories like their make and model, located in more than 3,000 ZIP codes and 39,000 voting districts.
1 - Why can't black people be expected to get a picture ID? YOU are racist for thinking that "Blacks must be held to a lower standard".
Are you referring to things like in Alabama where when they implented an ID system they promised not to limit the means of minorities to actually acquire an ID. Then they immediately shut down places that issue IDs in predominately black counties as a "cost-saving measure" which does exactly what they promised not to do. Also IDs are not free, and thus neither are Americans.
Here's a snopes link on the subject. It links to local news articles related to the subject.
https://www.snopes.com/2015/10/01/alabama-drivers-license/
Assuming you still maintain the position that this did not occur, can provide links to back up that position?