> After Florida 2000, Congress passed a law [...] that voter registration cannot live inside the White House of any sitting president. [...] today vote.gov is registered to the Election Assistance Commission. [...]
> But in the certificate logs [...] was a working preview of vote.gov [...] dated April 10. DOJ told a federal court the infrastructure does not exist. Both of those cannot be true. Either DOJ lied to a federal judge, or the studio is building a replacement for the country’s voter registration site without telling the agencies whose work it would replace. There is no third option.
Oof. I really don't like the idea of making all regular government access gated on one guy who claims his position (at least, only when he's in it) is literally above consequences for breaking the law. Imagine the abuses of the No Fly List but orders of magnitude worse.
> The National Design Studio was created by executive order in August 2025. [...] Its leader is Joe Gebbia, cofounder of Airbnb
Incidentally, a Ycombinator company, which I think adds adds a little bonus HN relevance.
P.S.: I don't understand why the submitter's comment is [dead].
Terr_•38m ago
To cobble together a quick excerpt:
> After Florida 2000, Congress passed a law [...] that voter registration cannot live inside the White House of any sitting president. [...] today vote.gov is registered to the Election Assistance Commission. [...]
> But in the certificate logs [...] was a working preview of vote.gov [...] dated April 10. DOJ told a federal court the infrastructure does not exist. Both of those cannot be true. Either DOJ lied to a federal judge, or the studio is building a replacement for the country’s voter registration site without telling the agencies whose work it would replace. There is no third option.
Oof. I really don't like the idea of making all regular government access gated on one guy who claims his position (at least, only when he's in it) is literally above consequences for breaking the law. Imagine the abuses of the No Fly List but orders of magnitude worse.
> The National Design Studio was created by executive order in August 2025. [...] Its leader is Joe Gebbia, cofounder of Airbnb
Incidentally, a Ycombinator company, which I think adds adds a little bonus HN relevance.
P.S.: I don't understand why the submitter's comment is [dead].