The Justice Department appears to have hired a convicted election hacker to monitor elections.
Democracy Docket reported that David Michael Levin appears to have joined the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division.
A Florida attorney, Levin in 2016 was charged with three felonies for hacking a Florida state elections website as well as a county elections website.
The hacking had no impact on the vote counting or outcome,
but Levin pleaded guilty to the crimes.
Levin argued he just wanted to check in on “the integrity of elections.”
He went to jail for 20 days and did two years of probation.
Democracy Docket reported that he was recently involved in a Minnesota election operation
alongside William F. Mohrman, a senior counsel in the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division
and the attorney who represented Derek Chauvin, the Minneapolis police officer who killed George Floyd.
The Justice Department has not confirmed Levin’s hiring or his role in the operation.
The Trump administration has made a habit of offering vindication for people who flat-out violated election laws in an attempt to stop what they believe was fraud
—a lie their president has constantly tried to manifest into existence.
Colorado’s Tina Peters,
the former Colorado county election clerk found guilty of tampering with voting machines,
was hosted at the White House last month.
And more broadly, Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon has changed the purpose and function of the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division entirely.
The apparent hiring of Levin
—a hacker watching over elections
—may also be a prelude for the midterms,
as the DOJ has already announced plans to send 1,000 poll monitors to ballot boxes around the country during the midterms.
https://newrepublic.com/post/214615/doj-attorney-convicted-hacking-election-sites
