DENVER, Colo. – Federal agents confiscated erstwhile Minnesota gubernatorial candidate Mike Lindell’s cell phone because of his frequent association with a Colorado election official who is under indictment for voting machine tampering. The subpoena, a public record, covers “all records and information” on Lindell’s phone related to seven co-conspirators in the Colorado tampering case. The co-conspirators are not named in the subpoena. It was a federal judge in Colorado who issued the Lindell subpoena at the request of the FBI. The Colorado investigation involves Tina Peters, rhe county clerk in Grand Junction. She has been indicted – and pleaded not guilty — on 10 counts related to voting machine tampering. Peters and Lindell have been frequent participants an election-denying network since Donald Trump’s loss in the 2020 election. The network has involved mostly telephone calls. Peters did appear last year at Lindell’s Cyber Symposium in South Dakota to advance election conspiracy theories. FBI agents stopped Lindell at a Hardee’s fast-food place in Mankato last week and seized his cell phone, asked him about Peters, he said.

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How wide is FBI’s net?

The subpoena for Lindell’s phone suggests the FBI believes that a record of his calls may further incriminate a Western Slope county official in Colorado who is under indictment for election-machine tampering. The FBI, however, is not limited to the Colorado case if agents discover criminal evidence involving others. It is believed the FBI is pursuing a great number of election-fraud conspiracy promoters and activists who had networked themselves through continuing telephone contact.