WASHINGTON — As news trickled out that former President Donald Trump's supporters had organized to access federally protected election machines, and copied sensitive information and software, election expert Susan Greenhalgh waited for FBI or Justice Department leaders to announce an investigation.
"It just seemed so stunning that we thought, well of course there's going to be a big reaction and the government is going to investigate," said Greenhalgh, senior adviser on election security for the nonprofit Free Speech For People.
When months passed with no such announcement, Greenhalgh and more than a dozen other election experts wrote a 14-page letter to Justice Department leaders in December outlining what they called a "multi-state conspiracy to copy voting software" and asking the agency to open an investigation.
