This DHS Official Oversees the Security of Federal Elections. He Wants to Ban Voting Machines. [View all]

Source: ProPublica

David Harvilicz, who co-founded a firm with a 2020 election denier, oversees voting machine security for the Department of Homeland Security while the Trump administration is relitigating the president's baseless claims that the 2020 vote was stolen.

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. Penrose assisted in a push to seize voting machines to overturn Trump's defeat.

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." He also has repeatedly questioned the validity of Democratic electoral victories and pushed for Republicans to overhaul electoral systems to their advantage.

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