At an event featuring prominent election deniers, a panelist played a video he claimed showed a whistleblower creating fraudulent military ballots. That video was a simulation and the people who made it were federally charged with breaking laws.
two Iranian nationals had created and circulated a"false election video" that depicted"an individual hacking into state voter websites and using stolen voter information to create fraudulent absentee ballots through the Federal Voting Assistance Program for military and overseas voters."
Federal investigators made it clear, though, that the video was not evidence that someone had created fraudulent ballots that were counted during the 2020 presidential election. "The computer intrusions depicted in the False Election Video were simulated intrusions created by members of the conspiracy using their own server and data obtained" when the hackers successfully compromised one state’s voter registration website, the Justice Department."Further, the could not actually be leveraged in the manner implied by the False Election Video."
The people responsible were described as"experienced Iran-based computer hackers." The pair faced charges including one count of conspiracy to commit computer fraud and abuse, intimidate voters, and transmit interstate threats; one count of voter intimidation; and one count of transmission of interstate threats.it was imposing sanctions on six Iranians and one Iranian entity in connection with the attempt to influence the U.S. election in 2020.
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