DHS Official Responsible for Election Security Previously Called to Ban Voting Machines

"The security of our election infrastructure depends on leadership that is trusted, impartial and grounded in evidence - not individuals who have promoted conspiracy theories about the very systems they are now responsible for protecting."

"In his top post at the Department of Homeland Security, David Harvilicz sets policy on protecting the nation's elections infrastructure, including voting machines. He's also the co-founder of a company with James Penrose, who helped hatch debunked conspiracy theories blaming hacked voting machines for Donald Trump's loss in the 2020 presidential election."

"On social media, Harvilicz has called for doing away with voting machines, saying they are 'eminently vulnerable to exploitation.' In a March post, he wrote that 'DHS needs to ban voting machines for all federal elections. The time is now.'"

David Harvilicz, a Department of Homeland Security official responsible for protecting the nation's election infrastructure and voting machines, co-founded a company with James Penrose, who promoted debunked conspiracy theories about hacked voting machines causing Trump's 2020 loss and assisted efforts to seize machines to overturn the election. Harvilicz has publicly called for eliminating voting machines, claiming they are vulnerable to exploitation, and has questioned Democratic electoral victories while advocating for Republican electoral system changes. Election experts and current and former DHS officials express concern about his role overseeing electoral security, particularly as the administration pursues efforts to relitigate baseless claims about the 2020 election being stolen.

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