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Dulcinea

(10,417 posts)
Tue Jun 16, 2026, 06:42 AM 7 hrs ago

Voting officials fear DHS may actually be a threat to elections this year

(NPR) Gary Berntsen is convinced Venezuela stole the 2020 U.S. election.

That myth has been debunked numerous times, including as part of Fox News' 2023 $787 million settlement with voting machine company Dominion, but Berntsen, a former CIA operative, has been pushing it for years.

"One of the things that we learned is there's 14 different technical ways that you can steal an election," Berntsen explained in an interview in the fall with conservative podcaster Lara Logan.

But ahead of the 2024 election, Berntsen says he couldn't get anyone to listen to him. Not the FBI. Not the media. Finally, he went to Congress, where he says he was similarly rebuffed by almost everyone, including Republicans. Except one.

https://www.npr.org/2026/06/16/nx-s1-5702491/trump-voting-threat-midterm-election-dhs

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Voting officials fear DHS may actually be a threat to elections this year (Original Post) Dulcinea 7 hrs ago OP
Gary Berntsen is in fact insane LymphocyteLover 6 hrs ago #1
The Dump administration is waiting to see the primary results before mdbl 3 hrs ago #2

LymphocyteLover

(10,337 posts)
1. Gary Berntsen is in fact insane
Tue Jun 16, 2026, 07:34 AM
6 hrs ago

Too bad the article doesn't get into any details of how Gary Berntsen think Venezuela stole the election. I'm sure it's fascinating.

mdbl

(8,915 posts)
2. The Dump administration is waiting to see the primary results before
Tue Jun 16, 2026, 10:22 AM
3 hrs ago

figuring out how much criminality to insert into our election system.

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