Trump’s DOJ seeks election equipment in red state (Missouri) ahead of 2026 election

The Washington Post ^ | September 03, 2025 | Yvonne Wingett Sanchez and Patrick Marley

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The unusual request for election equipment comes soon after Trump said he would lead a movement to get rid of voting machines and continues to falsely claim he won the 2020 election

A top official for President Donald Trump’s Justice Department recently sought access to voting equipment used by two Republican clerks in Missouri during the 2020 election, an unusual request from federal officials amid continued efforts by the president to malign the integrity of the nation’s voting systems.

Trump overwhelmingly won each of his three elections in Missouri, yet many of his supporters there and elsewhere continue to champion the president’s false claim that voting equipment was rigged against him in 2020 and that ballots should be tallied by hand. Earlier this summer, a consultant who said he was working with the White House asked county clerks in Colorado whether they would allow the federal government or a third party to physically examine their election equipment.

The two Missouri clerks rejected the request from Andrew “Mac” Warner, a top official in the Justice Department’s civil rights division and a former West Virginia secretary of state who has embraced false claims about the 2020 election. One of the clerks cited state statutes that restrict who can access voting equipment, and the other told Warner he no longer has the Dominion Voting Systems equipment he was looking for.

“They wanted to test a machine that was used during the 2020 election,” said Jasper County Clerk Charlie Davis in an interview last week with The Washington Post. “I just told him we upgraded our machines. Our vendor has all of the old machines so we don’t have access.”

Days later, Davis got a call from his friend Jay Ashcroft, who oversaw the 2020 and 2024 elections as Missouri’s secretary of state...

[Fungi]

“Trump overwhelmingly won each of his three elections in Missouri, yet many of his supporters there and elsewhere continue to champion the president's false claim”
No bias there, none at all. The Compost, as the NY Slime, are not news outlets, they are leftist sycophants parroting the Demonrat lies and agenda.

[HYPOCRACY]

Can they be arrested for civil rights violations once Trump is proven right? Or for aiding and abetting a coup after the fact?

[ClearCase_guy]

1) “We don’t have the machines anymore.”
2) “If you examined the machines, you wouldn’t learn anything at all because they’ve been scrubbed.”
3) The head of Dominion Voting told local officials: “UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCE SHOULD YOU ALLOW ACCESS TO VOTING EQUIPMENT” so go away.

[Nebr FAL owner]

DOJ getting ready to falsify ballots in Missouri for the party of socialism,sodomy me & surrender 🤐

[Carry_Okie]

Trump said he would lead a movement to get rid of voting machines and continues to falsely claim he won the 2020 election

Gotta be pretty desperate digging your own rhetorical grave at every opportunity WP. What kind of future are you anticipating? Do you really think you're going to come up on the other side?

[BobL]

“Trump overwhelmingly won each of his three elections in Missouri, yet many of his supporters there claim that voting equipment was rigged against him in 2020 and that ballots should be tallied by hand.”

Ok, so let Trump’s people look at the machines. Why the fear? After all, Trump’s people will look like TOTAL IDIOTS if the machines are clean...if the machines are clean...oh.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Kansas City and St. Louis are always the last to turn in their results so they know how many Democrat ballots to add.

[DIRTYSECRET]

Interesting. Red state with 2 deep blue cities. We really need it in the purple ones. People chaps it will give us a couple of congressional seats so it’s worth it.

[NurdlyPeon]

An article by Yvonne Wingnut Sanchez and Patrick Malarky.

[LegendHasIt]

Election equipment?

In my humble opinion “Election Equipment” should be ONLY:

People checking IDs and handing out paper ballots to eligible voters, Pens, locked ballot boxes and only honest ballot talliers with the keys to those boxes.

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