In a move rarely advised by campaign consultants, a Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate may have confessed to a serious crime — at least that’s how it appeared in a clip circulating online.
The seeming admission by Ron Hanks–who currently serves as a member of the Colorado House of Representatives and is seeking the GOP nomination to challenge Sen. Michael Bennet in November–was made in a speech on the floor of the House chamber last week.
“I know America’s voting machines are vulnerable,” Hanks says in the clip, “because my colleagues and I have hacked them repeatedly, as part of a decade of research studying the technology that operates elections and learning how to make it stronger.”
It was initially unclear what Hanks was referring to in the clip, which captures a brief section of a nearly seven-hour debate in which Hanks personally spent multiple hours speaking from the podium and was repeatedly gaveled-down by the presiding officer for breaches of the chamber’s rules of decorum.
A transcript later provided to the Times Recorder, though, shows that Hanks was quoting something written by Professor Alex Halderman of the University of Michigan. If Hanks was hoping for an expert to argue in favor of his voting machine conspiracies, though, he is out of luck: Halderman, who serves on Michigan’s Election Security Advisory Commission, is best known for his work debunking exactly the kind of claims Hanks made about voting machines throughout his hours-long speech in...
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