Mike Lindell Group Accused of 'Impersonating' Election Cybersecurity Initiative

Source: Rolling Stone

Mike Lindell Group Accused of ‘Impersonating’ Election Cybersecurity Initiative

Lindell’s Election Crime Bureau emailed election officials requesting their home addresses and info about how they monitor security threats

By Justin Glawe, Andrew Perez, Asawin Suebsaeng
September 15, 2024

An “election crime” group helmed by MyPillow founder Mike Lindell sent out emails requesting personal information from local election officials as well as information about security programs designed to detect threats in those counties, according to emails obtained by Rolling Stone and American Doom.

Lindell is a prolific supporter of election denial causes and one of the most prominent voices of a movement that falsely claims the 2020 election, which Donald Trump lost to President Joe Biden, was beset with widespread fraud.

On Sept. 5, the Lindell-backed group, the Election Crime Bureau, emailed at least one Georgia county requesting they take a survey about the Center for Internet Security (CIS), a nonprofit focused on cybersecurity, and its Elections Infrastructure Information Sharing and Analysis Center, an initiative funded by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to protect local election offices.

The survey asked election officials to provide personal information such as their home addresses and cell phone numbers. It also queried whether the counties are using monitoring systems, called “Albert” and “Falcon,” developed by CIS to help counties detect online threats to election systems.

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