Free Speech For People today released findings showing that court filings submitted by Kurt Olsen, the Trump adviser on election security, relied on declarations from individuals who acknowledged possessing voting system software and components allegedly obtained through unauthorized breaches of election equipment in multiple battleground states following the 2020 election.  

Olsen recently moved to the Department of Justice after nearly a dozen senators called for his removal as a White House Special Government Employee overseeing election security.

According to court records reviewed by Free Speech For People,Olsen submitted declarations from an operative on behalf of the plaintiffs that admitted to having access to voting system software and components that were allegedly obtained in unauthorized voting system breaches in multiple swing states.

The declarations cite access to voting system components from the vendor Election Systems & Software (ES&S) obtained from a jurisdiction in Michigan. Three individuals have been criminally charged  in Michigan for allegedly accessing and possessing the voting equipment without authorization. 

The declarations also include assessments of Dominion voting system software extracted from voting machines in Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Colorado. Records amassed through civil litigations and public records requests have documented that, following the 2020 election, operatives hired by the Trump campaign accessed voting machines to make copies of the software and share it with a network of extremists seeking to overturn the 2020 election. 

Two individuals, Sidney Powell and Scott Hall, pled guilty to charges brought in the Fulton County District Attorney’s RICO suit for their involvement in the voting system breaches in Georgia. Testimony to the January 6th Committee revealed that this scheme was discussed in Trump’s presence at the “unhinged” December 2020 Oval Office meeting. 

Election security experts have long warned that unauthorized access to voting system software can create lasting security risks by exposing sensitive system information that could be exploited in future attacks. 

“We have to acknowledge that the threat to our election security is now inside the US Justice Department,” said Susan Greenhalgh, senior advisor on election security for Free Speech For People. “Having access to the voting software and components introduces very serious and still unaddressed security threats to our elections. We are calling on members of the Senate to confront and investigate this urgent matter which has been ignored for too long.” 

Read Free Speech For People’s letter to the U.S. Senate here.

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