Mike Lindell Doubles Down On Placing Illegal Surveillance Devices At Polling Stations

Even though Republicans are telling him that his wifi detection devices are illegal to have in or near polling stations next year, MyPillow founder Mike Lindell is insisting that he is going to do it anyway. Lindell claimed in an interview late last week that his devices aren't actually "wifi sniffers" and he claims that Republican officials asked him to develop the technology. Even if these things are true - which they likely aren't - it still doesn't make them legal to use, as Farron Cousins explains.

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So, a couple days ago I told you about the story about how Republicans, Republicans in Kentucky are warning Mike Lindell, founder and CEO of MyPillow, that those little election detection device things that you wanna put on the drones or have people carry into the polling stations, it's a hundred percent illegal and you could be looking at two to five years in prison if you do it. Well, Mike Lindell didn't take too kindly to this warning that, Hey, please don't break the law. So Lindell in an interview on, uh, I believe it was real America's voice, had this to say, he said, quote, they don't even know what the devices are. They're not wifi sniffers. They're not, they're not illegal. And these machines, or these devices will say if they're lying or not, the voting machines, what this does, if you had your own wifi network with a password, it would tell you if other devices had hacked or, or I mean, are hooked up to the network and that they're using it. Okay? So it's not a wifi sniffer, it's just a device that sniffs out who's connected to wifi.

Hmm hmm.

Yet that kind of sounds exactly like what those Kentucky Republicans told you was a hundred percent illegal and is actually a felony. So your defense is not a defense at all. You're like, no, no, no. It's not a surveillance device, it's just a surveillance device that you described. The thing that the law says you can't do, it's if you're like, no, no, no, I'm not robbing a bank. I'm just making an unscheduled unapproved withdrawal from other people's accounts. Like, cool, that's still robbery. You idiot. And he continued, like he's still doubling down on it. He continues, and he says, and they're going to have these devices. They're going to catch when these devices or when these machines go online, whether it's a polling book, whether it's a router, whatever, it goes online, the computer, the printer, beep, beep, beep. It's going to be like a red alert.

Yeah. Because those, those, those things are supposed to be online and, and your little devices are gonna go beep, beep, beep. So, um, if you have people that are carrying them into polling stations, right, and all the election workers there, people are voting, and suddenly you hear somebody's pocket start going, beep, be beep, beep, beep, beep beep. It's, it's gonna be pretty easy to identify who is committing the felony. So not a smart thing to admit. 'cause you just told law enforcement officials what to keep their ears out for. Um, so you're not doing yourself any favors here, bud. And he continues again. Now you can put it in your area and see what's going on in your, your area, because you're going to get all these anomalies reported to you, and you're going to sit in your easy chair and go, wow, okay, so, so what, what is what what I, I don't even know what that means.

I genuinely for the life of me don't even know what in the hell he's even talking about anymore. And then he, this according raw story, Lindell claimed unnamed officials had asked him to develop a device to tell a voting machines were connected to the internet. So you're saying that unnamed officials, I'm assuming Republican officials told you to develop this technology, right? They, they didn't go to, you know, actual tech people like, you know what we need high, high-tech, you know, internet detecting devices. Should we, should, should we go to Elon Musk? I mean, is that a Jeff Bezos thing? Is you go with Tim Cook, with Apple, with Bill Gate? No, no, no, no, no. Let's go to the guy that makes frigging pillows and and he'll make it for us because, you know, a pillow, a wifi detection device, it's all, it's like the same thing basically. Right?