#Democrats & #election-integrity experts worry that, with #Republicans expected to suffer ​losses in the #midterms, the #Trump admin aims to suppress voting & pave the way to challenge losses with more baseless claims of election fraud.

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A Reuters investigation earlier this month found admin officials & investigators in at least 8 #states have sought confidential records, pressed for access to voting equipment ⁠& re-examined voter-fraud cases that courts & bipartisan reviews have rejected. #Trump & Republican allies are also pursuing unprecedented plans to redraw #election districts earlier than usual to secure advantages in the November #midterms congressional elections.

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The plan eventually collapsed, however, because Olsen & other admin staffers working with him failed to provide evidence to justify such a move, two ​of the sources said.

The episode is part of a far-reaching #Trump admin push to encroach on state & local governments’ authority to run #elections – which is granted to them in the US #Constitution to prevent the executive branch from seizing #power.

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Olsen wanted a national system of hand-counted paper ballots, the sources said, a frequent #Trump demand some #election-security experts say would be less accurate & riskier than the current system of machines with auditable paper trails that almost all cities & #states use.

The plan to exclude the machines…got far enough that in September, #Commerce Dept officials began exploring what grounds could be invoked to execute it, 3 additional sources said.

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White House adviser Kurt Olsen, a lawyer #Trump has tasked with proving widely debunked #election-rigging #ConspiracyTheories, pushed the plan to target #Dominion Voting Systems machines. The idea emerged, the sources said, as Olsen & other ‌officials brainstormed about how the #FederalGovernment could take control over #elections from US #states, an idea publicly aired by Trump.

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The remarkable development cuts short the roughly nine-year sentence that #TinaPeters, a former county clerk in Mesa County, #Colorado, was given after being convicted in 2024 for her role in a brazen plot to “examine” [tamper with] voting machines under her control after the #2020election. Peters had tried to prove that the machines had been used to rig the contest against #Trump.

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#Georgia’s votes in the 2020 presidential race were counted THREE TIMES, including once by hand, & each count affirmed #Democrat Joe #Biden’s win.

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The #DOJ has claimed it is investigating “irregularities that occurred during the 2020 presidential election in the County” & identified 2 laws that were supposedly violated. One requires #election records to be maintained for 22 months, while the other prohibits procuring, casting or tabulating false, fictitious or fraudulent ballots.

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