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struggle4progress

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Tue Nov 7, 2023, 09:05 AM Nov 2023

Lindell peddling election machine 'security' device; voting officials aren't biting [View all]

By Laura Romero
November 3, 2023, 9:42 AM

... Lindell says the wireless monitoring device ... is designed to detect if voting machines are connected to the internet ...

Lindell told ABC News that the monitoring devices have already been sent, at no charge, to election officials in several states including Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi and Missouri ...

... election officials ABC News spoke with said that, generally speaking, Lindell's device is meant to solve a problem that doesn't exist ...

Beyond questions about the device's usefulness, election officials said that in order for any new technology to be used during elections, it must undergo a process of approval and testing. Lindell cannot "just send devices to clerks and expect them to be used," one election official told ABC News ...

https://abcnews.go.com/US/election-officials-push-back-security-device-distributed-mike/story?id=104541850

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