At an Oct. 29 event featuring well-known election deniers, a panelist played a video he claimed showed a whistleblower creating fraudulent military ballots. Video footage from the event circulated widely on social media before the Nov. 8 midterm elections.
The video the panelist showed features the same content as a video that was linked to a voter intimidation and influence campaign that took place from August to November 2020, a U.S. Attorney’s Office spokesperson said.
The 2020 video was a simulation and does not depict the fraudulent creation of real ballots, according to a 2021 indictment. The federal government charged two Iranian nationals who created the video with breaking federal laws related to voter intimidation.
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At an Oct. 29 event featuring well-known election deniers, a panelist showed a video he framed as a distressing example of vulnerability in U.S. election infrastructure.
"This is an Iranian whistleblower," said Mark Cook, who introduced the video. "This just got dropped in my lap a couple days ago. But this is actually real."
Cook claimed the video showed a whistleblower creating fraudulent military ballots during the 2020 presidential election. He said the whistleblower used a tool that could be downloaded online to connect to an American voter registration database. Then, Cook said, the whistleblower extracted Alaskan voter registration data and used it to create "a military...
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