{"id":50496,"date":"2022-07-15T10:25:21","date_gmt":"2022-07-15T17:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=50496"},"modified":"2022-07-18T10:25:47","modified_gmt":"2022-07-18T17:25:47","slug":"insider-election-threat-looms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=50496","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Insider\u2019 election threat looms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Trump\u2019s campaign to undermine the 2020 election is fueling concerns over midterm election security, with experts warning of \u201cinsider\u201d threats from the very officials charged with guarding the vote.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of GOP candidates in federal and state races have embraced his false claims about the election, including at least 20 Republican candidates running for secretary of state, according to an NPR analysis.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s election denial movement has raised concerns among U.S. officials and experts who fear the conspiracy theories could undermine the legitimacy of future elections.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that\u2019s kind of a new element to the threat landscape of elections,\u201d said William Adler, a senior technologist in elections and democracy at the Center for Democracy &amp; Technology. \u201cI think that the new risk is the risk of insider threats.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Trump\u2019s campaign to undermine&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50496"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50497,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50496\/revisions\/50497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}