Red alert: “Router just went online”
"There's a command center where this information goes down and flashes, it'll go—'router online,'" Lindell said. It's not clear why a router connecting to the Internet would be evidence of election fraud, but Lindell provided that as an example multiple times. "If you're in this room and this is an election room, beep beep beep, router just went online, this red alert goes out there," he said.
A voiceover in a video shown to Lindell's audience described the system as follows:
We have been told that our election computers are never connected to the Internet. The WMD will put that to the test by detecting and reporting in real time Wi-Fi connections in county and state election offices. All Internet routers and access points will be reported as well as any devices to which they connect. The WMD incorporates many years of research and state-of-the-art development. It is a low-weight, low-power device that uses only passive signal detection to detect online systems and it will never interfere with any normal network operations. When an online connection is detected the Election Crime Bureau master alert system will be quickly notified and the alert will be displayed on the alert webpage.
This would, of course, gather information on many devices that have nothing to do with voting machines, like the cell phones in Lindell's audience. "We could have gotten some actual election voting machines in here" for the demonstration, Lindell said. But Lindell said he didn't want to do that because of "what happened in Michigan when they went after Matt DePerno for having a machine."
DePerno is facing criminal charges for an alleged attempt to illegally access and tamper with voting machines. "I didn't want to take that chance; this is too important for the world," Lindell said. "I have a command center" that alerts will be sent to, but "I'm not going to say what state" the command center is in.
The video shown to Lindell's audience said the scanning system currently provides "the MAC address, the hardware vendor, and the first time the device was detected," and that "additional information will be continually added... all information is securely archived for later analysis. The Wireless Monitoring Device is ready to be deployed in any election from local to presidential."
Lindell’s legal troubles
Dominion Voting Systems sued Lindell and My Pillow for defamation in February 2021. The case is in discovery, and no trial date has been set. Dominion says that "US voting systems are designed and certified by the federal government to be closed systems that do not rely on Internet connectivity for use. State and local requirements also serve to maintain voting machine air gaps for security."
The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) said after the 2020 and 2022 elections that there was "no evidence that any voting system deleted or lost votes, changed votes, or was in any way compromised."
An arbitration panel recently ordered Lindell to pay $5 million to Robert Zeidman, who won the "Prove Mike Wrong" contest in which Lindell offered the monetary prize to anyone who could prove that a data set he provided had nothing to do with the 2020 presidential election. Zeidman asked a federal court to confirm the arbitration award in a case that is still pending.
According to Newsweek, Lindell said in a phone interview "that he has probably 5,000 devices ready for fall elections this year, with the anticipation of having devices present across all 50 states by next November's elections."
"The real-time monitoring would be conducted by him and his team, Lindell said, with results posted in real time on FrankSocial," Lindell's social network, Newsweek wrote.
Lindell also suggested that his system would protect elections from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). "This is the uniparty, deep state, globalist CCP; that's the cabal that's trying to steal our country from us. Well, now we're policing them, and it's over for them," Lindell said yesterday in a Bannons War Room interview.