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> leak of voting-system BIOS passwords

Why would this be needed for analysing the software? This sound more like encouraging others to hack them.

> Knisley had an IT employee shut off the surveillance cameras in the election offices.

Actually, this sound like they first tried to tamper with the machines themselves

> Peters introduced them to a man she called Gerald Wood. ... But the real Gerald Wood apparently wasn't there.

Or bring in some unknown hacker to do it?

>But Wood testified ... that he never received a YubiKey that was assigned to him, ...

Sounds like this was much more than leaking proprietary information. They actually planned to hack these machines and blame it on Wood if detected.