Report Highlights Voting Machine Disinformation Campaigns Focused on Midterm Elections

A major Cybersecurity firm is warning that disinformation campaigns will be leveraged to try to make U.S. citizens doubt the results coming from the voting machines

The report, titled, Hoax in the Machine: Disinformation Against Voting Systems Manufacturers and Technologies in the 2022 US Midterm Elections, also predicts these campaigns are being used to convince the public that the machines “will be used to falsify the results of the midterms.”

Voting machines were a hotly contested issue during the 2020 presidential. Multiple accusations were made that the machines were either inaccurate or somehow manipulated to favor Democrats.

But accusations are not the same as proof. Dozens of lawsuits and inspections across multiple states failed to produce any evidence of manipulation, either by the voting machine manufacturers or others. And in places where a small level of tampering was detected, like a recent attempt in Pueblo, CO, the processes currently in place are able to detect the attempt and stop any tampering.

The report also states that misinformation and disinformation surrounding voting technologies” will be most evident in those jurisdictions facing particularly contentious races, such as the gubernatorial elections in Arizona and Pennsylvania and the Senate election in Georgia.”

The Recorded Future researchers also found some evidence that voting machine disinformation and doubt campaigns were promoted by a pair of Russian-linked organizations, Red Spring Information Agency and the Centre for Research on Globalization.

Dominion Voting Systems, one of the larget producers of secure voting machines, filed a 1.3 billion lawsuit in February, 2021, against MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell for making unfounded and unproven claims that Dominion somehow rigged its machines in favor of Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election.