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Trump allies urged DHS to probe machines

US President Donald Trump looks at his telephone from the Oval Office at the White House on August 27, 2018 in Washington, DC. MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images

A Donald Trump ally who's running to oversee Arizona's elections played a key role in the effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election, and he was joined in those efforts by a fringe figure who was in constant contact with White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, according to a new report.

Arizona state Rep. Mark Finchem asked the Department of Homeland Security to conduct "a full spectrum forensic examination" of voting machines" in the final weeks of the Trump presidency, and he got the attention of the department's acting director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, reported Politico.

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