Officials with the Voter Integrity Fund said the political appointees participating in the project are doing it in their personal time. He said he was not using any government resources, such as his work computer or cellphone, while searching for fraud. ADSandoval is part of a hastily convened team led by Matthew Braynard, a data specialist who worked on Trump’s 2016 campaign. Like other federal employees, Sandoval and the other government officials who have signed on to the voter fraud project are prohibited under the Hatch Act from taking part in political activity while working in their official capacity. “All it would take is a slip of a few words,” said Nick Schwellenbach, a senior investigator at the nonprofit watchdog group Project on Government Oversight and an Obama-era spokesman for the Office of Special Counsel.

Source: Washington Post November 15, 2020 17:48 UTC