Election-Denial Summit Pushes for Federal Takeover of Midterms
TL;DR
At a February 19 Washington, D.C., summit organized by Michael Flynn, prominent election-deniers and several federal officials pressed Trump to use extraordinary powers to take over the midterms, circulating a draft executive order to ban mail-in ballots and voting machines. The gathering, which included White House lawyer Kurt Olsen and DHS election-integrity official Heather Honey, underscores a growing, more organized push to reshape elections from within government, prompting concerns among experts about eroding guardrails—though White House aides say attendance doesn’t mean endorsement of a national emergency.
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- Trump Officials Attended a Summit of Election Deniers Who Want the President to Take Over the Midterms ProPublica
- Trump, seeking executive power over elections, is urged to declare emergency The Washington Post
- Draw the Line Now Against a Trump Election Takeover Cato Institute
- Will Trump try to seize voting machines to disrupt the midterm elections? The Guardian
- Trump says he's not mulling a draft executive order to seize control over elections. Here's what we know PBS
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