Early last summer, McNamara asked officials in the #Commerce Dept to consider the potential designation of #Dominion chips & software as a national security risk, the 2 sources said.

At the time, McNamara headed an #ODNI task force that worked with officials across the admin to investigate vulnerabilities in the nation’s #VotingMachines. The 2 sources said McNamara spoke about the issue to senior officials at the Commerce Dept, which is run by Secy Howard Lutnick.

#Trump #law #ElectionLaw

Olsen, who Democratic senators are seeking to remove from his post, aimed to invalidate #Dominion #VotingMachines before the #midterms, the 2 sources said.

Others involved in the deliberations included Paul McNamara, a senior aide of Trump’s spy chief #TulsiGabbard, & Brian Sikma, a special assistant to #Trump who works on his Domestic Policy Council, acc/to 1 of the 2 sources…. Olsen has worked closely with Gabbard's Office of the Director of National Intelligence (#ODNI).

#law #ElectionLaw

"...Once completed, the machine spits out a paper ballot that includes both a human-readable summary of their selections and a QR code that encodes the same information. Voters can check that their selections have been recorded accurately before feeding the ballot into a tabulator, which reads the QR code to count the votes.

Critics of the use of QR codes—which include everyone from election deniers to computer scientists—claim that because humans cannot read the digital code, there is no way of knowing that the results encoded in it are the same as those printed on the ballot...."

#qrcodes #uspol #votingmachines