Nathan Taylor, a cybersecurity professional with the non-partisan, non-profit Election Truth Alliance (ETA), shared on the most recent edition of the District Insiders podcast his analysis of recent and forthcoming U.S. elections security issues.
District Insider hosts Andrew Kreig and Wayne Madsen, reporters who have covered election rigging scandals for more than a decade, explored with Taylor, left, 
what the public most needs to understand about recent allegations about illegal or suspected election manipulation in U.S. elections.
Taylor’s concern is that top state elections officials from across the United States often avoid reviewing evidence of 
suspicious vote tabulation results illustrating irregularities.
A further problem, he adds, is that private contractors often obtain contracts from officials due to questionable relationships and potential lobbying and bribes, and these companies often obscure their ownership and top management. which hinders oversight of who owns the systems that count the public’s votes.
Even so, the ETA has documented significant problems with election security. Taylor points to the ETA’s recent litigation in Pennsylvania as an illustration of procedural gaps identified in a key 2024 swing state.
With the stakes rarely higher than this year’s U.S. elections, Taylor invited support via ETA’s website to join ETA’s all-volunteer efforts that include research, events and other outreach to protect local communities and democracy.
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About Nathan Taylor and the Election Truth Alliance:
Nathan Taylor, Executive Director of Public Engagement for the Election Truth Alliance (ETA), is a co-founder of the non-profit, non-partisan group. A cybersecurity professional, he previously worked as a U.S. Army Information Technology Specialist and an election-integrity researcher with a background in network security, systems analysis, and incident response.
The face of the Election Truth Alliance, Taylor presents its findings through videos, town halls, and community events with a goal of translating complex findings into actionable insights that inspire action.
ETA is a coalition of citizens, experts, and advocates united for election integrity and accountability and founded in December of 2024 when multiple individuals came together to share independent data, analysis, and research into the results of the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election. As concerning trends emerged from data, ETA moved quickly to present findings accessible and understandable to the broader public.
“In today’s landscape of pervasive disinformation, misinformation, and ‘weaponized unreality,’ its mission statement says, “we believe the truth still matters. Our membership includes volunteers from multiple countries, including the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. We recognize that foreign and domestic election interference is a global challenge, and that we are all made weaker when our interconnected democracies are compromised. While our organization is currently focused on the 2024 US Presidential Election, in the longer-term we plan to broaden our scope. The Election Truth Alliance (https://electiontruthalliance.org/statements-and-press-releases/) is an exclusively volunteer led and operated organization led by a three-person board of directors. Among the case histories and ongoing research projects:
Florida Election Data Concerns
ETA is working with local voters and investigative journalists in Florida. used publicrecords, voter data, fieldwork, legal filings, and prior U.S. intelligence reporting.
- https://itsuptous.substack.com/p/the-2024-election-series-they-knew
- https://itsuptous.substack.com/p/deep-dive-podcast-2-how-i-discovered
Pennsylvania (2024) – Statistical Analysis and Lawsuit
ETA conducted statistical analysis comparing votes cast to registered voters usingestablished election forensics methods.
Key findings:• Irregular voting patterns identified across multiple Pennsylvania counties• The scale of these anomalies, if confirmed, could exceed the reportedpresidential margin of ~120,000 votes
Cambria County, Pennsylvania – Ballot Processing Issues
• Ballot scanners failed to read completed ballots across all precincts• Issue attributed to missing “Time in Security (TIS)” markings• Ballots were initially hand-counted, then duplicated onto new ballots for scanning• Officials expected 35,000 ballots but processed approximately 65,000• Official results show 55,661 Election Day votes• This leaves a gap of over 9,000 ballots between processed and reported totals
About District Insiders and Co-Hosts
“District Insiders” features experts on timely topics affecting “districts” globally that are in the news.
Co-Host Wayne Madsen is a journalist, newspaper columnist, and author of more than 25 books on intelligence matters, historical events, and the dangers of neo-fascism in threatening democracy in the United States and abroad. Based for many years in Washington, DC, he is a former U.S. Navy officer and NSA analyst. Madsen is also the third generation of Madsens who have opposed fascism in its varied forms. For more than two decades, he has published The WayneMadsenReport.com, an investigative news website now on Substack. His most recent books include “A Parade of New Sovereignties: A Post-Hegemonic World,” an encyclopedia-style 350 global hot spots and “Anti-Fascism: American As Apple Pie.”.
Co-Host Andrew Kreig is non-profit executive, reporter and attorney who edits and otherwise directs the Washington, DC-based Justice Integrity Project (Justice-Integrity.org) and comments on the news via broadcasts, books and lectures. His most recent book Is “The Complete Annotated Durham ‘Russiagate’ Report: A Corrupt, Cruel Fraud,” which documents Russian interference in U.S. elections and efforts of denial or diversion by politically motivated Justice Department prosecutors.
Contacts for “District Insiders” hosts for guests, interviews, lectures, questions:
• Andrew Kreig, Andrew [at] justice-integrity.org• Wayne Madsen, waynemadsendc [at] gmail.com
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Civil Discourse, Legal Commentary: Voting rights. Southern resistance. National stakes, Joyce Vance, right, April 23, 2026. From the front lines at Fair Fight, we deliver sharp insights on the fight to protect democracy.
My friends at Fair Fight, the Georgia-based pro-voting and pro-democracy organization, reviewed the results of a ProPublica investigation into how Trump is systematically removing election protections, and produced this summary, that brings you up to date and also provides an important suggestion for what you can do.
We're all responsible for protection the right to vote. So this is important information to take in.Trump Has Eliminated Election Safeguards and Installed Loyalist Election Deniers in Key Roles“The election denial movement is now interwoven within the federal government.”Rights & Insights and Joyce VanceApr 15 READ IN APP
On Monday, ProPublica released a massive new investigation breaking down how Donald Trump has dismantled federal guardrails that stopped him from overturning his 2020 election loss.
The 4,700+ word investigation, based on interviews with about 30 current and former executive branch officials, provides an unprecedented and detailed account of how thoroughly critical election security guardrails have been gutted within the federal government ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.Key Findings from ProPublica’s Investigation:
ProPublica, Inside Trump’s Effort to “Take Over” the Midterm Elections, Doug Bock Clark and Jen Fifield, April 13, 2026. Safeguards Destroyed: In advance of this year’s midterm elections, President Donald Trump has systematically demolished federal guardrails that prevented him from overturning the 2020 election.
Changing of Guard: At least 75 career staff are gone. Two dozen appointees, including many from the election denial movement, have been hired. Ten helped try to overturn the 2020 vote. Political Interference: Once-fringe actors now have access to vast powers, which they’ve already used to push forward unprecedented actions that critics say amount to partisan interference.
These highlights were written by the reporters and editors who worked on this story.
In mid-December 2020, federal officials responsible for protecting American elections from fraud converged in a windowless, dim, fortified room at the Justice Department’s downtown Washington, D.C., headquarters.
They had been summoned by Attorney General William Barr.
Over the preceding weeks, Donald Trump’s claims that the presidential election had been stolen from him had reached a crescendo. He’d become obsessed with a conspiracy theory that voting machines in Antrim County, Michigan, had switched votes from him to Joe Biden.
With each day, Trump ratcheted up the pressure to unleash the might of the federal government to undo his defeat.
Barr interrogated experts from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, crammed in beside top FBI officials around a cheap table. He needed the group of around 10 to answer a crucial question: Was it really possible the 2020 presidential vote had been hacked?
ProPublica’s description of the previously unreported meeting comes from several people who were in the room or were briefed on the gathering. Everyone understood that the meeting represented an important moment for the nation, they said. Barr, who did not respond to requests for comment, had walked a delicate line with Trump, instructing the FBI to investigate allegations of election irregularities while declaring publicly there had been no evidence “to date” of widespread fraud.
The nonpartisan specialists from CISA, backed by their FBI counterparts, explained they’d unravelled what had happened in Antrim County. A clerk had made a mistake when updating ballot styles on machines, leading to a software problem that initially transferred votes from Republicans to Democrats, they said. There was no fraud, just human error — which would soon be publicly confirmed through a hand count of the county’s ballots.Animation by Matt Rota and Henrike Lendowski
Listening intently, Barr seemed to understand both the truth and that telling it to the president would almost certainly cost him his job.
At the end of the meeting, Barr turned to his top deputy, made hand motions as if he was tying on a bandana and said he was going to “kamikaze” into the White House.
What happened next is well known. When Barr met with Trump in the Oval Office on Dec. 14, the president launched into a monologue about how the events in Antrim County were “absolute proof” that the election had been stolen. Barr waited to get a word in edgewise before telling his boss what the experts from CISA had told him.
We read the entire piece (twice) to make sure you’re aware of the findings:
Career officials who protected elections are gone – election deniers have taken over. ProPublica found that at least 75 career officials across several agencies who played key roles in safeguarding the 2020 election have been fired, resigned, or reassigned. They have been replaced by roughly two dozen political appointees Trump has installed in positions that could affect elections. Many are election deniers, and ten actively worked to reverse Trump’s 2020 loss.
Federal programs designed to safeguard elections have been dismantled. Since Trump took office, nearly all federal election protection programs have been eliminated, severely defunded, or had nearly all their staff removed or reassigned:
- CISA election team
- NSC election security group
- ODNI Foreign Malign Influence Center
- DOJ Public Integrity Section
- DOJ Civil Rights Division’s voting section
- FBI Public Corruption Team
- FBI Foreign Influence Task Force
- FBI and DOJ Election Day command posts
False claims and politicization now drive federal election policy. ProPublica reports that White House election lawyer Kurt Olsen – sanctioned by judges for false 2020 claims – pressured the FBI’s Atlanta chief to seize Fulton County’s 2020 ballots using a discredited report. When the FBI chief examined the evidence and found it didn’t hold up, and was already dismissed by Georgia Republican officials, he was forced out. The raid happened anyway – using a version of the same rejected evidence. Former DOJ Public Integrity lawyers said they likely would have tried to block the investigation.
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April 15
Checks & Balances from the Society for the Rule of Law Institute, Political Opinion: There is No Role for the President in Our Elections, Trevor Potter, right, 
April 15, 2026. The Constitution makes itself clear.
A major effort of the second Trump administration has been a relentless attempt to expand executive branch power by applying a shockingly broad interpretation of the authority of the president under Article II of the U.S. Constitution. That provision establishes the president and the executive branch of government, whose role is to “execute” the laws passed by Congress.
Among the many examples of the Trump administration’s campaign to run roughshod over the rule of law and our government’s constitutional separation of powers are unconstitutional attempts by the president to control who can vote in our elections and how elections for federal office are administered.
To be clear, the Constitution does not give the president any role in this aspect of our democratic republic. The elections clause of the Constitution is, in fact, quite specific: “The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by Law make or alter such Regulations, except as to the Places of choosing Senators.”
Despite this clear delegation of powers to the states and Congress, President Donald Trump has, almost from the start of his second term, attempted to make law from the White House governing our elections.
The president’s most recent executive order provides a clear example of an administration trying to will new election laws into existence, including new requirements for mail-in voting; creating a national database of “verified” eligible voters based on faulty information; and directing the U. S. Postal Service to send mail-in ballots only to certain individuals.
My organization, Campaign Legal Center, alongside Democracy Defenders Fund, has sued the Trump administration to block this illegal and unconstitutional order. The lawsuit echoes arguments in a complaint we filed last March challenging a different executive order, which, at its core, is an illegal attempt to prevent millions of Americans from registering to vote or have their ballots counted by adding unnecessary, burdensome hurdles.
Regardless of what any executive order calls for in terms of changing election rules, the key point is that the executive branch is not legally entitled to make new changes to voting and election administration rules. That is the job of the states and Congress. Federal judges hearing this case have said as much in numerous rulings putting the order’s provisions either temporarily or permanently on hold.
The Trump-appointed leadership at the U.S. Department of Justice has also gone to unprecedented lengths to insert the DOJ into the electoral process. The Justice Department is currently suing 29 states and Washington, D.C., to obtain unredacted voter registration lists, pressuring states to use error-prone processes for vetting those lists and backing a lawsuit — recently argued before the U.S. Supreme Court — that could invalidate more than 30 state laws on deadlines for receiving absentee ballots.
To illustrate the proper role of the federal government in regulating our elections, consider the Federal Election Commission (FEC) and the Election Assistance Commission (EAC).
The former was created by an act of Congress following the Watergate scandal, for the express purpose of enforcing federal campaign finance laws aimed at reducing the corrupting influence of money in our political system.
Congress created the EAC after the 2000 presidential election, when, in the wake of Florida’s controversial election process, it became clear that national standards for voting systems were necessary to ensure every vote is counted accurately, even if those standards are voluntary. The EAC also serves as a national clearinghouse for information on election administration, accredits voting machine testing laboratories, and certifies voting systems.
The FEC and EAC were expressly designed by Congress to be independent agencies, controlled by a group of commissioners evenly divided between the two major political parties. The law does not make the regulatory decisions of these commissions subject to presidential oversight. However, in yet another demonstration of this president’s failure to honor Congress’ legislative prerogative, President Trump signed an executive order in February of last year asserting that the president can overrule regulatory decisions by independent federal agencies.
The president has further overstepped the limits of executive power by asserting the right to fire the heads of independent federal agencies at will, an issue that the U.S. Supreme Court will be ruling on this year in a case called Trump v. Slaughter.
It should go without saying that the president (any president), who is surely invested in the political success of his party, should not have any substantive role in controlling agencies empowered to regulate our elections. In opposing the president’s firing of independent agency leaders, Campaign Legal Center and I made this same argument to the justices at the Supreme Court in our Slaughter amicus brief.
As records from the Constitutional Convention capture, avoiding the concentration of too much power in a single person in the new American government was high atop the list of priorities. Indeed, the branch invested with arguably the most substantial powers in our government — the power to tax, to establish tariffs, to declare war and the like — is Congress, based on the idea that large bodies of elected officials are best suited to make such decisions.
In a concurrence to the Supreme Court’s majority opinion in February invalidating the president’s sweeping tariff policy, Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote: “It can be tempting to bypass Congress when some pressing problem arises. But the deliberative nature of the legislative process was the whole point of its design.”
That design was not invalidated by the inauguration of Donald Trump last January. A key aspect of the current battle to ensure the Framers’ vision persists beyond 2028 is opposing the president’s attempts to wrest control over the electoral process away from the states and Congress.
Trevor Potter is the president and founder of the Campaign Legal Center, a nonprofit dedicated to advancing democracy through law. A former Republican chairman of the Federal Election Commission, he also served as general counsel to John McCain’s 2000 and 2008 presidential campaigns.
April 13
ProPublica, Inside Trump’s Effort to “Take Over” the Midterm Elections, Doug Bock Clark and Jen Fifield, April 13, 2026. Safeguards Destroyed: In advance of this year’s midterm elections, President Donald Trump has systematically demolished federal guardrails that prevented him from overturning the 2020 election.
Changing of Guard: At least 75 career staff are gone. Two dozen appointees, including many from the election denial movement, have been hired. Ten helped try to overturn the 2020 vote. Political Interference: Once-fringe actors now have access to vast powers, which they’ve already used to push forward unprecedented actions that critics say amount to partisan interference.
These highlights were written by the reporters and editors who worked on this story.
In mid-December 2020, federal officials responsible for protecting American elections from fraud converged in a windowless, dim, fortified room at the Justice Department’s downtown Washington, D.C., headquarters.
They had been summoned by Attorney General William Barr.
Over the preceding weeks, Donald Trump’s claims that the presidential election had been stolen from him had reached a crescendo. He’d become obsessed with a conspiracy theory that voting machines in Antrim County, Michigan, had switched votes from him to Joe Biden.
With each day, Trump ratcheted up the pressure to unleash the might of the federal government to undo his defeat.
Barr interrogated experts from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, crammed in beside top FBI officials around a cheap table. He needed the group of around 10 to answer a crucial question: Was it really possible the 2020 presidential vote had been hacked?
ProPublica’s description of the previously unreported meeting comes from several people who were in the room or were briefed on the gathering. Everyone understood that the meeting represented an important moment for the nation, they said. Barr, who did not respond to requests for comment, had walked a delicate line with Trump, instructing the FBI to investigate allegations of election irregularities while declaring publicly there had been no evidence “to date” of widespread fraud.
The nonpartisan specialists from CISA, backed by their FBI counterparts, explained they’d unravelled what had happened in Antrim County. A clerk had made a mistake when updating ballot styles on machines, leading to a software problem that initially transferred votes from Republicans to Democrats, they said. There was no fraud, just human error — which would soon be publicly confirmed through a hand count of the county’s ballots.Animation by Matt Rota and Henrike Lendowski
Listening intently, Barr seemed to understand both the truth and that telling it to the president would almost certainly cost him his job.
At the end of the meeting, Barr turned to his top deputy, made hand motions as if he was tying on a bandana and said he was going to “kamikaze” into the White House.
What happened next is well known. When Barr met with Trump in the Oval Office on Dec. 14, the president launched into a monologue about how the events in Antrim County were “absolute proof” that the election had been stolen. Barr waited to get a word in edgewise before telling his boss what the experts from CISA had told him.
