{
  "id": 17877,
  "url": "https://www.nextgov.com/cybersecurity/2026/08/voting-machine-researchers-say-federal-work-abruptly-ended-after-trump-ally-pushed-back-their-findings/415300",
  "title": "Voting machine researchers say federal work abruptly ended after Trump ally pushed back on their findings",
  "summary": "Mojave Research executives said at DEF CON that the government had been preparing to expand the company’s election security work, and linked Trump adviser Kurt Olsen to pressure they faced after finding election system vulnerabilities but no evidence votes were altered.",
  "authors": "David DiMolfetta",
  "category": "news",
  "topics": "misinformation",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": "us",
  "published_at": "2026-08-09T10:00:00.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-08-10T05:10:00.488Z",
  "source_slug": "x-nextgov-fcw",
  "source_name": "NextGov/FCW",
  "source_homepage": "https://www.nextgov.com",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/17877",
  "original_url": "https://www.nextgov.com/cybersecurity/2026/08/voting-machine-researchers-say-federal-work-abruptly-ended-after-trump-ally-pushed-back-their-findings/415300",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}