Creating Security Issues, One Election Conspiracy at a Time

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In contrast to the legitimate concerns about aging election technology, fervent Trump supporters and Big Lie proponents have rallied around a host of unfounded claims.

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Creating Security Issues, One Election Conspiracy at a Time
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12:00 PM · Sep 7, 2022

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Top members on the legal team of former President Donald Trump improperly shared sensitive voting machine information with a host of conspiracy theorists and right-wing commentators, as revealed in a recent Washington Post report. A newly obtained video shows how a local elections official escorted two GOP operatives into the Georgia county’s office on the same day as the voting machine breach.

Implicated in this several state effort is Matthew DePerno, the GOP nominee for Michigan attorney general, who was part of a group of individuals who misrepresented themselves to election officials in order to access voting equipment, which the group then tested and tampered with. DePerno, allegedly one of the “prime instigators of the conspiracy,” could be elected to statewide office this fall.

Another GOP candidate, Mesa County elections clerk Tina Peters, created a similar security breach in Colorado. Peters has been indicted on 10 felony and misdemeanor charges for helping an unauthorized person make copies of sensitive voting machine hard drives. Peters then ran for the Republican nomination for Colorado secretary of state in 2022 (she lost in June, but continued to demand recounts despite a 14 percentage point disadvantage).

If experts repeatedly stated that the 2020 election was the “most secure in Amer­ican history,” what’s the deal with this frenzy about voting machines? With a range of voting technology used across the country, there are legitimate vulnerabilities that must be addressed. These concerns, however, just aren’t the conspiracies pushed by the far-right.

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