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Voting machine tampering points to concern for fall election

FILE - A worker passes a Dominion Voting ballot scanner while setting up a polling location at an elementary school on Jan. 4, 2021, in Gwinnett County, Ga., outside of Atlanta. Activists who promote the false claim that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from former President Donald Trump have been traveling the country peddling a narrative that electronic voting machines are being manipulated. They have specifically targeted equipment made by Dominion Voting Systems, which has filed several defamation suits and said that post-election reviews in state after state have shown its tallies to be accurate. (AP Photo/Ben Gray, File)

FILE - Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold speaks during a committee meeting at the summer conference of the National Association of Secretaries of State in Baton Rouge, La., July 8, 2022. This year, Colorado lawmakers broadened the definition of tampering with election equipment and strengthened the penalty for it. “Lies about America’s elections are causing security risks,” said Colorado’s chief election official, Jena Griswold. “Any actor who tries to subvert the will of the people should be held responsible under the law.” (AP Photo/Matthew Hinton, File)

FILE - Pueblo County Clerk Gilbert “Bo” Ortiz checks the status of voting machines that apparently failed to work correctly, causing long delays in election results being released on Nov, 8, 2016 in Pueblo, Colo. In Pueblo County, election officials are preparing for every possibility during the November general election. Ortiz oversees elections as the clerk and recorder in Pueblo County, which Donald Trump narrowly won in 2016 but lost four years later. (Chris McLean/The Pueblo Chieftain via AP, File)

Voting machine tampering points to concern for fall election