'Chilling': Trump Allies Sought to Send Armed Private Contractors to Seize Voting Machines

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'Chilling': Trump Allies Sought to Send Armed Private Contractors to Seize Voting Machines
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'This was a failed coup and these people are still plotting.'

June 4, 2022

"A private sector organization has no authority to go and seize state government equipment... And we are looking at a document that says that's okay." The document sought to grant authority to three companies—including two which were also involved in auditing the election results—to send armed workers to seize all voting machines and election data at will.

The request"implies that whoever drafted this... views this as some sort of warlike event," Christopher Krebs, the former U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Director who Trump fired for affirming that the election had been secure, told thereported on the previously undisclosed letter less than a week before the congressional committee investigating the January 6, 2021 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol is scheduled to begin public hearings.

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