Olsen’s Bid to Seize Voting Machines Exposed as Midterm Plot

Reuters reports that White House adviser Kurt Olsen spearheaded a bid to seize Dominion voting machines in about half the states, pushing debunked claims of foreign hacking tied to the 2020 election. The plan envisioned moving to hand‑counted paper ballots if machines were removed, but investigators could not substantiate the vulnerabilities, and experts warned such a switch would be chaotic. The effort, tied to Olsen’s Stop the Steal background, progressed to the point that Commerce Department officials reportedly weighed legal grounds, but the scheme collapsed and the White House dismissed the Reuters report as misinformation.