WASHINGTON — On the third day of the Conservative Political Action Conference in March, two men delivered on experts' biggest concerns about attempts to access election machines after the 2020 election.
Using copies of election software — improperly removed from multiple counties — that has been circulating among election deniers, they presented an unfounded narrative that they had discovered evidence of fraud and foreign interference. They also discussed their goal to secure jobs as election officers and build a team of computer experts to access elections systems in more than 60 counties in order to prove their theories.
"This is exactly the situation that I have warned about," said election technology expert Kevin Skoglund, a senior technical adviser at the National Election Defense Coalition. "Having the software out there allows people to make wild claims about it. It creates disinformation that we have to watch out for and tamp down."
