Mike Lindell's 'election security' device banned from polling stations by Kentucky GOPers

Mike Lindell has recently been complaining about the money troubles of his pillow company, and it looks like his new product isn't faring any better.

Lindell, who recently begged for donations while declaring he's in the poorhouse, earlier this year showed an audience a drone attached to a Wi-Fi network detection device that he said would be used at polling sites to determine if the voting machines were connected to a router.

Now, Republican elections officials in Northern Kentucky are warning that using the devices at the polls is illegal – and likely a felony, according to The Enquirer.

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"Kenton County Clerk Gabrielle Summe said the devices may be able to unlawfully identify voters and could be small enough for people to sneak into polling locations," the report states. "'These are the kinds of things that keep me up at night,' she said at a board of elections meeting Friday morning."

The article further says that the four-person Kenton County board of elections have "voted unanimously that poll workers will be told not to let people use the devices."

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"Kentucky law prohibits the use of 'computer or other information technology system' to record the identification of voters," according to the report. "Summe said it would be up to a Commonwealth attorney to file charges against someone for using the devices, so she's not sure what the punishment for offenders would be. But she said most crimes involving election issues are class D felonies, which are punishable by one to five years in prison."

It's also possible users can be cited with trespassing if they're using the devices "without a property owner's permission, though, it would depend on the situation," according to the report.

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