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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMichigan plot to breach voting machines points to a national trend
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The GOP's ongoing "precinct strategy" and coup attempt: Michigan plot to breach voting machines points to a national pattern
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Michigan plot to breach voting machines points to a national trend
A state police inquiry in Michigan found evidence of a conspiracy that has echoes elsewhere in the country as election deniers seek proof of 2020 fraud.
9:00 PM · Aug 14, 2022
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The GOP's ongoing "precinct strategy" and coup attempt: Michigan plot to breach voting machines points to a national pattern
washingtonpost.com
Michigan plot to breach voting machines points to a national trend
A state police inquiry in Michigan found evidence of a conspiracy that has echoes elsewhere in the country as election deniers seek proof of 2020 fraud.
9:00 PM · Aug 14, 2022
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/08/14/michigan-voting-machine-breach/
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Eight months after the 2020 presidential election, Robin Hawthorne did not expect anyone to ask for her townships voting machines.
The election had gone smoothly, she said, just as others had that she had overseen for 17 years as the Rutland Charter Township clerk in rural western Michigan. But now a sheriffs deputy and investigator were in her office, asking her about her townships three vote tabulators, suggesting that they somehow had been programmed with a microchip to shift votes from Donald Trump to Joe Biden and asking her to hand one over for inspection.
What the heck is going on? she recalled thinking. The surprise visit may have been an out-of-the-blue thing, as Hawthorne described it, but it was one element of a much broader effort by figures who deny the outcome of the 2020 vote to access voting machines in a bid to prove fraud that experts say does not exist.
In states across the country, including Colorado, Pennsylvania and Georgia, attempts to inappropriately access voting machines have spurred investigations. They have also sparked concern among election authorities that, while voting systems are broadly secure, breaches by those looking for evidence of fraud could themselves compromise the integrity of the process and undermine confidence in the vote.
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Michigan plot to breach voting machines points to a national trend (Original Post)
Nevilledog
Aug 2022
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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,071 posts)1. K&R
bluestarone
(16,988 posts)2. Maybe a time for a practice run, OR
Just get NEW machines! Don't take any chances during 2022 or 2024 elections. Gotta go with that gut feeling that, they have something up their sleeves!