Tina Peters and Allies Pitch 100‑Day Election‑Security Plan to US Agency

A coalition of election‑denial activists, led by former Colorado elections official Tina Peters and including former Trump administration adviser Clay Parikh, says it delivered a "100‑Day Risk Mitigation Election Plan" to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) within the Department of Homeland Security. The July 22 proposal urges CISA to focus on six measures, notably replacing ballot‑marking devices with hand‑marked paper ballots and requiring a full hand‑count of every ballot before certification. It also suggests using DHS grant incentives for states that adopt the recommended practices. Experts have warned that a system of hand‑counted ballots would be more costly, less accurate and potentially riskier than the current machine‑tabulated system with paper trails.

The plan represents another effort by election‑denial groups to influence federal election‑security policy ahead of the upcoming midterm elections, though its practical adoption faces technical and logistical challenges.