President Joe Biden has made a very curious choice in nominating Dara Lindenbaum to the Federal Election Commission. The FEC exists to bolster public faith that campaigns run with integrity. Lindenbaum, in contrast, is an attorney who swore under oath to baseless and since-withdrawn election conspiracy theories designed to undermine faith in election outcomes.
In a lawsuit she filed in November 2018 on behalf of Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams’s nonprofit group, she signed her name to several bad-faith allegations, many of which had already been debunked at that time. But one of these allegations truly stands out for its brazen fearmongering and lack of credible evidence: the charge that faulty or rigged voting machines were actually switching voters’ choices when they went to vote in the 2018 Georgia gubernatorial election.
