Board member Max Clavijo belongs to the Election Integrity Network, the group led by conservative lawyer Cleta Mitchell, who helped Trump try to reverse his 2020 defeat. Using a tool called ELLY, built by fellow network member Rick Richards, Clavijo questioned the eligibility of 69 voters. He claimed some had moved, some had voter ID problems and some had registered under fake names, according to ProPublica. The majority of the 69, 38 in all, involved voters registered under a first initial. Several of them told ProPublica that’s simply how they go by their names.

His cover letter acknowledged the data hadn’t been checked by a human, according to people familiar with the matter. Clavijo didn’t respond to ProPublica’s questions. Richards dismissed complaints about ELLY’s accuracy as nonsense and said it’s up to county workers to verify its data. Mitchell didn’t respond to questions about her group’s plans for the tool.