The two conservative leaders claim that identifying their confidential informant would put his life at risk, according to the Houston Chronicle.
“Every name I give you gets doxxed and harassed,” Engelbrecht charged.
“On behalf of my clients, we don’t want to release the name of this individual,” True the Vote attorney Brock Akers responded to Judge Hoyt in an Oct. 6 hearing.
Phillips stated on Truth Social that “Doing the right thing isn’t always easy but it’s always right. We were held in contempt of court because we refused to burn a confidential informant or our researchers. We go to jail Monday unless we comply.”
They are facing accusations of defamation and computer crimes from a company at the center of a viral social media campaign engineered by the conservative voting organization, according to the Texas Tribune.
As might be expected, the development was not well received by those on the right:
True the Vote founder Catherine Engelbrecht, former board member ARRESTED for not outing informant
True the Vote leaders Catherine Engelbrecht and Gregg Phillips were taken into custody by US Marshalls on Monday.
Catherine Engelbrecht and Gregg Phillips, the True the Vote activists who exposed Konnech’s election software’s data privacy problems, have been ordered by Federal Judge Kenneth Hoyt to spend the day in jail, for contempt, for failing to disclose the name of the whistleblower who originally put them onto the fact that the Chinese-connected software was in use in a large number of U.S. voting precincts.
