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Proof: Brad Raffensperger gears up to oversee his final election in Georgia

The record — the exact bytes that were hashed

{"first_seen":"2026-10-09T00:12:41Z","headline":"Brad Raffensperger gears up to oversee his final election in Georgia","kind":"front-page-headline","rank":1,"source":"nbcnews","url":"https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2026-election/brad-raffensperger-final-election-georgia-secretary-state-trump-rcna599292","v":1}

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SHA-256

8ce524008d67109b55e6004d714a45acda91b3fef3eb3e3b79b3225dd060cbca

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Confirmed in Bitcoin block 970555, mined 2026-10-09 00:26 UTC.

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• The record pageCaptured 2026-10-09 00:17 UTC — view the capture.
• The story pageCaptured 2026-10-09 00:18 UTC — view the capture.

Check it yourself — none of this needs this site

1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-8ce524008d67.json prints 8ce524008d67109b55e6004d714a45acda91b3fef3eb3e3b79b3225dd060cbca. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-8ce524008d67.json and headline-8ce524008d67.json.ots onto opentimestamps.org, which checks the receipt against the Bitcoin block chain. Or, with the OpenTimestamps client and a Bitcoin node: ots verify headline-8ce524008d67.json.ots (ots upgrade first while the receipt is pending).
3. Open the Wayback Machine's captures above: the capture of the record page shows this hash as it stood then, and the capture of the story page shows the newsroom's own page.

Sealed automatically, 4 min after it was first seen.