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SIOUX FALLS, SD — State legislators attending MyPillow CEO Mike LindellAs promised, the three-day cybersymposium was largely unimpressed by the fact that China failed to substantiate the theory that it hacked the 2020 election systems and changed the votes in favor of President Biden.

as Mr. LindellHis allegations flared further last week as Republican state and municipal lawmakers sought to oust the election at the Sioux Falls event, in front of an audience of 40 million online viewers and nearly 500 people attending in person.

Still convinced that the election was stolen from Donald Trump, they have returned to state capitals to further their audits and investigations of the vote counts.

“Today we are providing a united front,” Virginia state Senator Amanda Chase said at an impromptu news conference as the symposium concluded on Thursday. “We launched an electoral integrity meeting of legislators across the United States. From now on, we will hold a bimonthly meeting to continue efforts for partial and full electoral inspections in all 50 states.”

Mr. Lindell trumpet her months of cyberspace evidence and revelations her The symposium would prompt Mr Biden to resign and return Mr Trump to the White House.

When Ms. Chase and six of the state legislators gathered reporters to announce the formation of the election audit committee, which far-right website TruNews called “a HISTORIC moment in history”, cyber experts gathered in “breakout rooms” to examine the long-awaited evidence supporting Mr. Lindell’s claims. no evidence was found.

As first reported by The Washington Times, Josh Merritt, an expert on the “red team” hired by Mr. Lindell Cross-examination of the data, such intercepted network traffic or “packet captures” on Election Day were unrecoverable. He He said the data provided cannot prove a Chinese cyberattack.

“If we don’t trust the information, we won’t say it’s legitimate” He aforementioned.

After Mr. Merritt announced his findings, other experts recruited by Mr. Merritt. Lindell alerted that the data was sabotaged.

Robert Graham, another expert at the symposium, said in an interview that “true believers” started scrambling in breakout rooms to prepare a message for the crowd. Mr. Graham told the symposium that experts, who were convinced that the election was widely hacked, and that more than half of the data had been hacked, were given to MPs by Mr. Lindell He had promised.

“Initial analysis takes time. “It takes a lot of effort to look for a needle in a haystack,” Mr. Graham said in a message on Twitter. “But once you find a needle, it doesn’t take long to confirm you’ve found it. Had we been given the packet captures, we could have confirmed them within a day.”

The announcement was one of the rare occasions when any of the experts in the breakout chambers addressed MPs. There was little interference between those questioning the data and others at the symposium, mostly state legislators or their representatives, and the media.

Mr. Graham told The Times that his paths with lawmakers only crossed at the buffet line.

Istisna, on the second day of the symposium, Mr. Lindell‘s team brought the data before the audience. The team said the data showed tampering with the presidential election in Mesa County, Colorado.

The presentation was tentative and separate from Mr. Lindell’s original claim about a nationwide hack. Tina Peters, Mesa County’s clerk and recorder, moderated the opening day of the symposium. Ms. Peters is under investigation from her office for a possible breach of election security. Mr. Lindell’s team did not confirm the source of the Mesa County data.

The Cybersleuths, including Ron Watkins, guided the crowd through the three hours of revelation. Mr. Watkins, who also benefits from CodeMonkeyZ, is a former executive of 8chan, a website known for selling conspiracy theories.

Mr. Watkins appeared in the HBO documentary series “Q: Into the Storm” about the QAnon conspiracy group. Filmmaker Cullen Hoback has suggested that Mr. Watkins is “Q”, the originator of the theory that a gang of Satanic pedophiles within the government and Hollywood are working to undermine Mr. Trump’s presidency.

Mr Hoback said: Email The Times, Mr. Lindell and Mr. Watkins has been coordinating “for a while”. He Mr Watkins said he was “deeply involved in all election audit activities”, including close coordination with Mr Watkins. Lindell.

After three hours of parsing in incomprehensible computer files, led by a known conspiracy theorist, Mr Graham said the servers had revealed absolutely nothing. The entire exercise, the only attempt to show any data, seemed futile even among the legislator’s casual audience.

Ms. Chase admitted that she was not a smoking gun as Mr. Chase. Lindell He had promised.

“They’re still analyzing the data,” Ms. Chase told The Times. “They just take the data, so, you know, they’re still reviewing, technical experts, which I’m not involved in, they’re still reviewing the data. I want to hear what they have to say. They’re experts, not legislators. So I’m waiting for that. I’ve heard generalizations. I’ve heard different opinions out there. You know, I think the hard facts and that sort of thing will come later as the technical experts analyze the data and I will listen.”

At the same time, it was clear that Mr. Lindell’s failure to keep his word had little effect on his strategy.

“Will it deter what I’m doing? No, absolutely not,” he said. “I’m full. I believe every state owes it to the people in its hometown, no matter what state you’re in. They’ve arrived at your office as they designed, and the universe they have, we have to get to the bottom of it one way or another.”

Others said they had the evidence they needed by Day Two of the symposium.

“I think what I’ve seen here in the last two days and what I’ll see tomorrow confirms what I already believed: there was internet interference in our electoral systems,” said Washington State Representative Brad Klippert.

“I’m not the smartest or sharpest tool in the shed when it comes to tech,” he said, “so in my top-notch tech mindset, I try to pick up bits and pieces. more truth to citizens about what’s out there, what’s actually happening. … I am worried that we have not made a real and right choice. I think there are too many scams. There are many citizens in my legislature who are very, very upset.”

Mr. Lindell never accepted it He does not present evidence or the Supreme Court unanimously decides to reverse the election based on the evidence, He had guessed.

“I know you’ve all come here and I don’t know what the expectations are,” said Mr. Lindell He told the crowd as the event was coming to an end. “Things have really changed more or less over the course of three days. I hope you are all well fed.”