NKyTribune reporter
Steve Knipper, a member of the Erlanger City Council seeking re-election this year, is a co-host of a controversial “Restore Election Integrity” tour that preaches the fallibility of public elections.
Knipper, a self-described cybersecurity expert who has lost two bids for the office of Kentucky Secretary of State, does not think Joe Biden fairly won the 2020 presidential election against Donald Trump and that too many other elections lack integrity.
But the presentations he has been making about election fraud to crowds for about a year now with Republican state Sen. Adrienne Southworth of Anderson County and Jon Schrock of Tennessee, a field coordinator for the right-wing political advocacy group The John Birch Society, has drawn strong criticism.
Kentucky Secretary of State Michael Adams, the Kentucky County Clerks’ Association, the Kentucky Sheriffs’ Association, the Kentucky County Attorneys Association and members of the State Board of Elections say the tour spews false information and has no specific evidence of any fraud in any election.
His critics protest too much, said Knipper in a telephone interview this week.
“I don’t know why they are protesting us so much,” he said. “We must really be getting under their skin.”
On their tour, Knipper and his colleagues conduct two-hour meetings for public consumption, usually in the evenings, claiming fraud in elections primarily through hacked voting machines.
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