ATLANTA — Election security advocates called for federal investigations Tuesday of a “coordinated plot” by former President Donald Trump’s supporters to copy election software in Georgia, Michigan and Nevada after the 2020 election.
The request urged Jack Smith, the U.S. Department of Justice’s special counsel investigating Trump, to pursue the multistate data-copying effort as part of his probe into the former president’s attempts to stay in power after losing the election.
Recent revelations that Trump attorneys directed election data copying in several states require a broader inquiry, said the letter to Smith, the FBI and the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency by the national election advocacy organization Free Speech for People, along with several former election officials and computer scientists.
