Reuters: NC GOP Official Threatened County Elections Chief To Gain Illegal Access To Vote Tabulator Machines

April 23, 2022 Republicans, Trump cultists

A local Republican Party leader in North Carolina threatened to get a county elections director fired or have her pay cut unless she helped him gain illegal access to voting equipment, the state elections board told Reuters. The party official, William Keith Senter, sought evidence to support false conspiracy theories alleging the 2020 election was rigged against former U.S. President Donald Trump.

Senter, chair of the Surry County GOP, told elections director Michella Huff that he would ensure she lost her job if she refused his demand to access the county’s vote tabulators. Senter and a prominent pro-Trump election conspiracist, Douglas Frank, met with Huff on March 28, claiming “there was a ‘chip’ in the voting machines that pinged a cellular phone tower on Nov. 3, 2020, and somehow influenced election results,” the state election board said, calling the claim “fabricated disinformation.”

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