“The Election Official Who Tried to Prove ‘Stop the Steal:’ How a group of conspiracy theorists enlisted a county clerk in Colorado to find evidence that the 2020 vote was rigged.”
Sue Halpern in The New Yorker on the Tina Peters saga.
Category Archives: voting technology
“Newly obtained surveillance video shows fake Trump elector escorted operatives into Georgia county’s elections office before voting machine breach”
CNN:
A Republican county official in Georgia escorted two operatives working with an attorney for former President Donald Trump into the county’s election offices on the same day a voting system there was breached, newly obtained video shows.The breach… Continue reading
“Handling of Georgia election breach investigation questioned”
AJC:
A recording first surfaced six months ago claiming that a team copied “every piece of equipment” in Coffee County’s elections office after the 2020 election, but it wasn’t Georgia investigators who confirmed that confidential voting data had been taken.Instead,… Continue reading
“Special grand jury seeks evidence of Coffee Co. election breach”
AJC:
The Fulton County special grand jury is growing increasingly interested in an alleged election data breach in rural Coffee County as part of its multi-faceted criminal investigation into Georgia’s 2020 election.The 23-person grand jury earlier this week approved… Continue reading
“Some Republicans in Washington state cast a wary eye on an election security device”
Miles Parks for NPR:
In northeast Washington state, a remote region nestled against the Canadian border, the politics lean conservative and wariness of government runs high.Earlier this year, a Republican-led county commission there made a decision that rippled across Washington… Continue reading
“Election Data Breach Attracts Georgia Investigators”
NYT:
The day after Donald J. Trump’s supporters stormed the Capitol, a small group working on his behalf traveled to rural Coffee County, Ga., about 200 miles southeast of Atlanta.One member of the group was Paul Maggio, an executive… Continue reading
“Files copied from voting systems were shared with Trump supporters, election deniers”
WaPo:
Sensitive election system files obtained by attorneys working to overturn President Donald Trump’s 2020 defeat were shared with election deniers, conspiracy theorists and right-wing commentators, according to records reviewed by The Washington Post.A Georgia computer forensics firm hired… Continue reading
“Trump-allied lawyers pursued voting machine data in multiple states, records reveal”
WaPo:
A team of computer experts directed by lawyers allied with President Donald Trump copied sensitive data from election systems in Georgia as part of a secretive, multistate effort to access voting equipment that was broader, more organized and more… Continue reading
Kansas Sheriff Says He’s Continuing to Investigate Fraud
Despite the apparent lack of evidence that any occurred. From the KC Star:
Johnson County Sheriff Calvin Hayden told a “constitutional sheriffs” group in Las Vegas on Tuesday that he is continuing to investigate the county’s election results to… Continue reading
Center for Democracy & Technology Report on Ballot-Marking Devices
Available here. From the summary:
BMDs are widely used in U.S. elections and come with several benefits for election officials and voters. Because of their accessibility features — for example, allowing users to increase the displayed font size, use… Continue reading
“Election Officials Confront Cyber Threats, False Claims Ahead of Midterms”
WSJ has this important story on the unprecedented threats and challenges that election officials are facing. It begins: “Election officials on the front lines of defending voting systems say they are preparing for a range of challenges ahead of the … Continue reading
“Brad Raffensperger’s Election Contradictions”
Marilyn Marks:
Today the January 6th Committee will hear much anticipated testimony from Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger. But there is deep irony in his appearance as the Committee exposes the roles of Trump allies in attempting… Continue reading
“Do Ballot Barcodes Threaten Election Security?”
CDT:
Bogus conspiracy theories about the 2020 election have been repeatedly debunked. But that hasn’t stopped election conspiracy theorists from attempting to gain influence in election administration, either as low level poll workers or as top state election officials… Continue reading
“Texts Reveal GOP Mission to Breach Voting Machine in Georgia”
Daily Beast:
The Georgia Secretary of State claims it is investigating how a local election supervisor gave a cadre of 2020 election truthers improper access to an election computer system, in what initially seemed like the latest example… Continue reading