(Photo by Michael Brochstein/Sipa USA)(Sipa via AP Images) Sen. Peter Welch (D-VT) sent a letter to Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon regarding “credible reports” he had read that the Department of Justice had hired an attorney who had been convicted of election interference for hacking election websites — and to work in the election monitoring division, nonetheless. In 2016, David Levin, then a 31-year-old resident of Estero, Florida, was arrested and charged with three felony counts for “unauthorized access of any computer, computer system, computer network, or electronic device.” A press release from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement announcing Levin’s arrest stated that he was “accused of gaining unauthorized access to the Lee County Elections Office website on Dec. 19, 2015 and to the Department of State Division of Elections website on Jan. 4 and 31, 2016.” He claimed he wanted to look into the “integrity of elections.” Levin later pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor charges, served a 20-day jail sentence, and received two years of probation. Despite this history, Levin was among the attorneys hired by DOJ’s Civil Rights Division, which Dhillon heads, to conduct election monitoring activities, according to a report by Democracy Docket. The report further noted that Levin appeared to have “taken part in a recent DOJ election monitoring operation in Minnesota.” Democracy Docket included “images and video posted online” and “publicly available facial-recognition reverse image search tools” to identify Levin’s presence at the Minnesota operations in August, as well as noting his Facebook profile photo “provides another indication of his DOJ ties,” as it “shows him standing in front of a flag bearing the DOJ insignia, with part of a woman wearing purple visible beside him. That attire appears to match an outfit worn by Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon at a July 8 Civil Rights Division swearing-in ceremony.” Levin updated his Facebook profile photo earlier this month; the one Democracy Docket mentioned is still online here. Neither the DOJ nor Levin replied to Democracy Docket’s request for comment. Welch cited the Democracy Docket report in a press release and letter to Dhillon demanding answers on Levin’s apparent hire and role in the federal government’s election monitoring activities. “Deploying politically motivated individuals to carry out DOJ’s poll monitoring efforts threatens to undermine Americans’ faith in the electoral process ahead of the November 2026 midterm elections,” wrote Welch. The letter went on to emphasize that… [TheTopNews] Read More.
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