Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill challenges “reverse” voting statement by MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell

As MyPillow CEO and former Donald Trump adviser Mike Lindell continues his whirlwind tour of the country, trying to make it look like the election was stolen, another Republican official denounced him as a crook liar. This time it was Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill. On Tuesday, he challenged Lindell’s claim that 100,000 of the state’s votes in the 2020 presidential election were “switched” from Trump to Biden, and that cybercriminals had hacked the voting machines.

Lindell made the claims in a video after a visit with Merrill to Alabama last week, allegedly to perform “tests” on the state’s voters lists. He said “every county was affected” and that they had been hacked via Bluetooth, but provided no evidence to support the theory. The secretary, speaking to AL.com, refuted this. “All our [voting] machines are custom built. There is no modem component. You cannot influence them through a cell phone or landline. There is no way they can be probed or the numbers manipulated. He added that Lindell would have to return to Alabama to conduct further “research.”