Some North Carolina lawmakers want to inspect voting machines in the state, arguing that elections officials are trying to hide something from them, NBC affiliate WRAL reports.A group of House Republicans who call themselves the Freedom Caucus say voting machines should be inspected so they can ensure North Carolinians that the state’s elections are secure.Click the video player above to watch headlines from WXII 12 News.It’s part of a national push led by some Republicans to cast doubt on election integrity in many states.However, there’s no evidence North Carolina elections are not secure. Everyone in the Freedom Caucus was elected in 2020, and none of them claim any fraud in the 2020 elections, according to WRAL.But they say they’re hearing from constituents who believe the election system is rigged, and as lawmakers, members of the caucus say they believe it’s their role to reassure those voters.Rep. Keith Kidwell, a Beaufort County Republican, said he thinks the constituents who have reached out to him are concerned because of what they’ve seen on the internet and in the press that indicates some problems with voting. Beaufort said, he hasn’t seen much of that in North Carolina, though.Nonetheless, he says he can’t count how many people have brought up their concerns about other states, according to WRAL.Kidwell said he asked for access to some randomly selected Election Systems & Software voting machines but was denied, WRAL reported.”Simply open the machines, unfold the boards and show the Freedom Caucus so that we can come back to the people and tell them we’ve looked at the machines and there’s nothing there,” he said at a news conference on Thursday.Kidwell also said he’s confident they’re not going to find anything based on what they’ve been shown so far.But federal and state laws limit who can access the internal workings of voting machines, state Elections Director Karen Brinson Bell said. Lawmakers, who are also candidates, are not on that list.”We have expressed in recent correspondence, after guidance from our federal officials, that this is not a permitted act,” Brinson Bell said. “It’s not permitted in our state laws. It’s not permitted in how we conduct elections. And it’s not permitted because we are designated as critical infrastructure as part of our federal guidelines.”Brinson Bell also consulted a branch of the Department of Homeland Security about the issue, and this guidance is being given to every state, not just North Carolina.That’s because it opens the country’s systems up for exposure to adversaries, both domestic and foreign. The restrictions are in place to protect the systems, she said.Brinson Bell said she and her team have met with lawmakers several times to provide answers to their questions and will continue to cooperate with them to the extent the law allows, according to WRAL.