A local GOP leader in North Carolina attempted to intimidate a county elections chief unless she aided in giving him unauthorized access to official voting equipment, according to Reuters.

William Keith Senter, chairman of the Surry County Republican Party, told the elections chief she would be terminated from her position or suffer a pay cut if she failed to give him access. Senter intended to use the equipment to compile evidence to back up unfounded assertions that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from former President Donald Trump, Reuters reported.