Election deniers stoke Trump-driven ballot security fears before midterms

Ahead of next month's midterms, several prominent figures who backed Donald Trump's false claims of widespread fraud in 2020 have been amplifying worries about election security on conservative-leaning media, mirroring arguments the president uses to justify tighter federal involvement in voting. Experts maintain that elections are already secure, and most of Trump's efforts to restrict mail-in voting and require proof of citizenship have been held up in court, though the Supreme Court has let his administration proceed with assembling a federal database of eligible voters, according to The Guardian.

Cleta Mitchell, who worked to reverse the 2020 outcome, pointed to reports of a privacy weakness in Georgia's voting machines and told Steve Bannon the state was falling short. She also said she had learned from high-level administration sources that the Justice Department was questioning Georgia's secretary of state about voter data shared with two nonprofits. Ed Martin, a former U. S. pardon attorney, echoed senior officials' assertion that machines containing foreign-made components were "compromised." He also said Tina Peters, convicted over efforts to interfere with 2020 results, had met Trump in the Oval Office about election integrity, and that Trump would act on his own if Congress did not pass the Save America Act.

Summarized by PolitiKool from The Guardian’s reporting. Read the full story at The Guardian →