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The Republican Attack Upon The Right to Vote
2 May 2022 6:31 am
.Special Report-Trump allies breach U.S. voting systems in search of 2020 fraud 'evidence'
Eighteen months after Trump lost the White House, supporters continue to falsely assert that compromised balloting machines across America robbed him of the 2020 election.
To stand up that bogus claim, some Trump die-hards are taking the law into their own hands – by attempting, with some success, to compromise the voting systems themselves.
Previously unreported surveillance video captured one such effort in August in the rural Colorado town of Kiowa.
Footage obtained by Reuters through a public-records request shows Elbert County Clerk Dallas Schroeder, the county’s top election official, fiddling with cables and typing on his phone as he copied computer drives containing sensitive voting information.
The episode is among eight known attempts to gain unauthorized access to voting systems in five U.S. states since the 2020 election. All involved local Republican officeholders or party activists who have advanced Trump’s stolen-election falsehoods or conspiracy theories about rigged voting machines, according to a Reuters examination of the incidents.
Elbert County, Colorado’s Republican Election Official Dallas Schroeder Caught Tampering With Voting Systems
“Unprecedented in modern elections”: Trump conspiracy theorists breach voting systems in 5 states