New bombshell reporting from the Washington Post revealed that an operative sought access to voting equipment in Colorado on behalf of the Trump administration. 

This effort to access voting systems by Trump allies appears to be a continuation of the multi-state scheme by operatives hired by Trump attorneys that occurred in 2020-2022, and resulted in allies of Donald Trump obtaining Dominion voting software from Arizona, Colorado, Georgia, Michigan and Pennsylvania, and ES&S voting equipment from Michigan. Together, ES&S and Dominion count 70% of votes across the country.

Testimony obtained by the January 6th Committee suggests Trump knew about the plots to unlawfully take voting systems and software in 2020, but was not pursued by the Committee, the Garland DOJ, or the Special Counsel. 

Having access to voting software and equipment enables bad actors to develop ways to tamper with voting results, with minimal physical access or through other vectors such as election programming updates. 

Since the 2020-2022 voting system security breaches, no additional security mitigations have been put in place. Though the compromised voting systems have been replaced where breaches have known to have occurred, this does not address the security risks created by the unlawful misappropriation of the voting software and voting machines. 

The security threats to our election systems by the unauthorized distribution of voting software to partisan operatives has been recognized as something that would cause  “irreparable damage” to the “election security interests of the country” by Dominion Voting System. The Georgia Chief Information Officer said that if adversaries gained access to the voting software, it would provide a “roadmap” to hack the system. 

And yet, while there have been some limited, localized criminal investigations in Colorado and Michigan, there has been no comprehensive multistate investigation to determine how far and wide the voting software has been shared or if it was shared with hostile foreign adversaries, and there was no national security assessment of new cyber security threats. 

The prospect that the Trump administration could be using agents of the executive branch to access voting systems must not be ignored, and should be recognized as a grave and severe threat to election security. 

For more information see: Challenging Insecure Voting Systems – Free Speech For People or contact [email protected]