While I was finishing this piece, I typed passports.gov directly into my browser,
just to see what was there.

A sign-in page came up:

enter your email and we will send you a six-digit code.

No State Department seal.
No agency name.
No privacy notice.
Just a black button that says Send code.

The owner of passports.gov is the Executive Office of the President, White House Office.

The State Department does not own this domain.

The security contact field is blank.

The first certificate was issued May 5, three weeks ago.

Based on what I can see in the staging environment,
the next step will ask Americans to upload their passport photo through a White House-controlled website,
on the same Cloudflare account,
by the same people,
with no privacy notice on file.

A passport photo is biometric quality.

Linked to your identity through Login.gov.

Collected through infrastructure the White House owns,
sealed from public view.

They are building it this week.

Here is what the structure looks like from the outside.

Section 3161 hides the staff so they do not appear on salary reports or file financial disclosures.

The Executive Office of the President has no inspector general.

There are zero required privacy disclosures filed across all twelve programs
and no published contracts with any outside vendor.

Forty federal websites run behind one personal Cloudflare account.

And the Presidential Records Act seals everything for twelve years the day this administration ends,
-- meaning until 2040, no one outside the White House can see who works there,
what they collected,
or where any of the data went.

What this office is doing is taking the parts of the federal government that touch you directly,
your prescription,
your voter registration,
your passport,
your federal login,
out of the agencies that legally own them
and rebuilding them on White House infrastructure.

Vote.gov belongs to the Election Assistance Commission,
and the studio built a copy.

Passports belong to the State Department, and the studio is building a replacement this week.

Login.gov belonged to GSA, and the studio’s guy runs it now.

Trump has said publicly that this infrastructure is for other presidents,
and he is right about that.

It is the one thing in this story I take him at his word on.

The infrastructure outlasts him.

Whoever wins in 2028 inherits the websites,
the vendors,
the data,
and the hardware,
sealed and waiting.

There is a gold three-dimensional eagle on the homepage of TrumpRx,
clutching a ribbon in its talons.

You are looking at the eagle.

Something is being built underneath the government you think you have,
on infrastructure you cannot see,
by people who answer to no one,
collecting everything.

I wish, still, that I were being metaphorical.

#votegov #ndstudio #NationalDesignStudio #surveillance
https://thedreydossier.substack.com/p/i-found-a-second-votegov-and-its

In October 2025,
Bobba got on a recorded conference call with state election directors from across the country
and presented a federal voter registration system the studio was building.

Voters would register through a federal portal,
their identities verified through Login.gov,
their citizenship verified through DHS’s SAVE database,
their registrations transmitted to the states.

A state election director asked him what data the federal government would retain.

He said, on a recording, in an election year:
I don’t know what they retain and what they are logging.

The person presenting a federal voter registration system to state election directors did not know what data his own system kept on American voters.

After Florida 2000, Congress passed a law creating the "Election Assistance Commission" specifically because both parties agreed that voter registration cannot live inside the White House of any sitting president.

The sitting president should not have visibility into who is checking their registration in the weeks before an election that decides whether they keep their job.

So Congress built a wall, and today vote.gov is registered to the Election Assistance Commission.

As of this writing, that wall is still standing.

But in the certificate logs,
underneath the studio’s unannounced sites,
was a working preview of vote.gov,
built inside the studio’s staging environment, behind the same Cloudflare login,
isolated deliberately.

The certificate appeared on April 10, 2026.

Weeks before that certificate appeared,
this administration signed an executive order requiring DHS,
the Social Security Administration,
and the SAVE program to construct a federal citizenship-verified voter list,
with a deadline of ninety days from signing.

That deadline is weeks away.

When the order was challenged in federal court, the Department of Justice told the judge the agencies named had not yet begun preparation and were still in the deliberation phase.

The certificate is 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.

#votegov
#ndstudio #NationalDesignStudio #surveillance
https://thedreydossier.substack.com/p/i-found-a-second-votegov-and-its

@i0null

To a story about https://vote.gov about searching for a wikipedia search term ' vote.gov ' a bias'd wiki search about RNC story I published ON infosec.exchange as 🔗? Sure.

It's a good story about a simple small demo on reproducibility in a #news story that you can participate in by searching for yourself the search term " vote.gov " on wikipedia and find out*?☝️⚠️

* It has pictures! Lots of pictures👉🖼️

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🗳️. 🗡️🦜 " Vote! *Squak* Vote!"

#RTDNA #DNC vs. #RNC vs #VoteGov vs #wikipedia

#DoIT #KERMITprotocol 👉🐸
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