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Nevilledog

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Mon Aug 15, 2022, 12:10 AM Aug 2022

Michigan 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


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 township’s 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 sheriff’s deputy and investigator were in her office, asking her about her township’s 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 OP
K&R Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Aug 2022 #1
Maybe a time for a practice run, OR bluestarone Aug 2022 #2

bluestarone

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2. Maybe a time for a practice run, OR
Mon Aug 15, 2022, 08:27 PM
Aug 2022

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!

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