How the GOP plans to steal future elections

In interviews on the sidelines of the National Association of Secretaries of State’s summer conference, a dozen chief election administrators detailed a growing number of “insider threats” leading to attempted or successful election security breaches aided by local officials. The most prominent was in Colorado, where a county clerk was indicted for her role in facilitating unauthorized access to voting machines. But there have been similar instances elsewhere, including in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Ohio.

Beyond security breaches, other insider efforts to undermine elections have sprouted. In New Mexico last month, the board of commissioners in Otero County — a predominantly Republican county along the state’s southern border with Texas — refused to certify primary election results, citing unfounded claims about the security of voting machines that are rooted in conspiracy theories about hacked election equipment from the 2020 election.

“What’s clear is this is a nationally coordinated effort,” said Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, a Democrat. “It’s multi-year, multi-faceted … not just pressuring election officials, but pressuring local elected officials as well.”

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Kentucky Secretary of State Michael Adams, a Republican, said he’s seen the copycat trend already. “I read something in POLITICO about what’s going on in some other state and then three days later, we get the same thing in our state,” he said.

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Secretaries say there has been an increased focus on working with state and federal agencies to repel both cyber and physical threats. “We have our [state] office of homeland security folks who check with our counties to make certain that they have their election infrastructure secure,” said New Jersey Secretary of State Tahesha Way, a Democrat who assumed the NASS presidency on Sunday. She also mentioned federal security partnerships.

Secretaries were quick to point out that, while breaches are serious security challenges, they aren’t necessarily jeopardizing statewide election systems. American elections are decentralized by nature, and there has been a general lack of sophistication from would-be breachers, they say.

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“It would be very difficult for someone to completely disrupt what is happening statewide,” said Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows, a Democrat. “What’s concerning is that those stories start to undermine public confidence.”

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“We were very fortunate in 2020 that no sitting secretary bought into the Stop the Steal effort,” Michigan’s Benson said. “I don’t think we’ll get that lucky again.”

  Politico

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