Donald Trump claims the 2020 election was stolen from him ad nauseam, and then his rock-solid supporters try to steal the election back and make him president again. In a Special Report, Reuters examines how events unfolded.
A year and a half after the ex-president lost his election, he had fully convinced the Trump acolytes that the ballot machines had been rigged against him.
Reuters discovered a new surveillance video. It showed that Colorado’s top election person in Elbert County Clerk, Dallas Schroeder, “copied computer drives containing sensitive voting information.”
A retired Air Force colonel had sent him instructions on how to copy the system data before giving an attorney a hard copy:
‘[Schroeder made his] forensic image of everything on the election server.’
Another attorney was also employed by “My Pillow Guy” Mike Lindell. The pillow manufacturer financed a number of the voting machine attempts. A former cocaine addict, Lindell spent $30 million and brought 70 individuals onboard to support Cause of America. Next, he hired four top members of the U.S. Election Integrity Plan (USEIP). He firmly believed:
‘God chose Trump to be president. Now Lindell says God endorses his pursuit of election-fraud claims.’
The Department of Justice (DOJ) was aware of eight attempts to hack voting systems in five states, all by Republicans. For instance, in Michigan, a Republican pretended to be a government official who came to take the voting machinery:
‘We’ve got to get rid of the machines! We need to melt them down and use them for prison bars and put everyone in prison that was involved with them.’
Reuters brought in “four experts in voting law.” They found these attempts on the voting equipment “unprecedented in mover U.S. elections.” The hacks and untethered access break the vital “chain of custody” for the voting systems.
Executive Director of the Center for Election Innovation and Research David Becker said:
‘You need to make sure that those ballots are maintained under strict chain of custody at all times. It’s destroying voter confidence in the United States.’
At another nonpartisan organization, President of Verified Voting, Pamela Smith, said that private voting “is a fundamental right in American elections.”
All the hacks and accesses happened in GOP strongholds:
‘Two occurred in Colorado, three in Michigan and one each in Ohio, Pennsylvania and North Carolina. At least five of the cases are under investigation by local or federal law enforcement, with three arrests and one conviction, according to state and local officials. Four of the breaches forced election officials to decertify or replace voting equipment that was no longer secure.’
Michigan’s election tabulator machine disappeared for four days. Then, it was discovered in a QAnon-addicted clerk’s office whose conspiracy theories included:
‘…casting Trump as a savior figure fighting a secret war against a cabal of Satanist pedophiles and cannibals, including prominent Democrats.’
After former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani claimed Dominion Voting Systems were hacked, the company sued him for $1.3 billion.
In North Carolina:
‘[A] local Republican Party leader who demanded access to a vote tabulator – a machine which, by state law, may only be handled by election officials.’
Chair of the Surry County Republican Party William Senter threatened to fire the Elections Direction Michella Huff if she did not hand over the goods. She did not. Huff said she suffered threats afterward but warned:
‘I’m very concerned for the voters. Democracy starts here. It starts here in our office.’
Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold said she would not be intimidated by comments such as this:
‘You know, if you’re involved in election fraud, then you deserve to hang. These threats are being fueled by extreme elected officials and political insiders who are spreading the Big Lie” – that 2020 vote was stolen – “to further suppress the vote, destabilize American elections, and undermine voter confidence.’
The National Conference of State Legislatures wrote:
‘At least 33 states have statutes that prohibit tampering with voting systems or devices or equipment on which a vote is cast and counted. The chart does not cover other kinds of voting crimes such as tampering with ballots.’
But the courts move slowly.
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