Staff at U.S. voting machine companies have removed public information about themselves from the internet and have made contingency plans with local law enforcement ahead of thefalsely claimed he had won, some workers at election technology vendors reported that they had been “doxxed” – private information about their homes, such as pictures of their front doors, had been shared online, according to Sara Cutter, the executive director of the American Council for Election Technology.
The “level of threat has increased exponentially and has not cooled off since 2020,” Cutter said. Her organization was started in 2022 and includes companies like Election Systems & Software and Smartmatic. Smartmatic, a voting technology provider, sent a letter to media organizations this week in which it asked for “vital cooperation in preventing the spread of misinformation regarding the technology and services we will be providing.”