“Homeland Safety Secretary Markwayne Mullin threatened native election officers on Friday with jail time if they didn’t adjust to the Trump administration’s efforts to vary election insurance policies, whereas reiterating a lot of President Trump’s unsubstantiated claims concerning the safety of American elections,” the New York Instances experiences.
“Mr. Mullin pledged to ‘dig in just a bit bit deeper’ than a prime-time speech that Mr. Trump gave on Thursday, when the president claimed with out concrete proof that American elections have been rife with ‘hacking, manipulation and corruption.’ The secretary largely caught to comparable speaking factors, repeating the president’s unverified declare that the federal government had discovered a whole bunch of 1000’s of noncitizens on voter rolls in at the very least 4 states. Neither Mr. Trump nor Mr. Mullin supplied any specifics on how they derived these numbers, and officers in at the very least two of the states stated their voter rolls have been correctly maintained.”
“Mr. Mullin additionally repeated claims that overseas actors may exploit vulnerabilities recognized in election programs to vary votes, regardless of providing no proof that such a breach has ever occurred.”
The Guardian: DHS secretary doubles down on Trump’s baseless 2020 election claims.
