Georgia’s State Elections Board has reportedly requested the FBI’s help in a criminal inquiry of an election system breach in Coffee County.
Highlighting similar election breaches in other states across the United States, the board asked to collaborate with the bureau and is also examining communications between Peach State officials in Spalding County, Georgia, and SullivanStrickler, the tech firm hired by Trump lawyers to asses voting equipment in the county, reports said.
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“The conduct in Coffee County is similar to conduct in Antrim County, Michigan, and Clark County, Nevada,” elections board Chairman William Duffey Jr. said, CNN reported.
Previously published footage showed a crew of forensics experts from SullivanStrickler spending several hours in a restricted Coffee County office to conduct an assessment for lawyers associated with former President Donald Trump. SullivanStrickler audited election machines in a handful of counties across the country during the aftermath.
Georgia’s State Elections Board has been investigating an alleged breach in Coffee County, but lawyers for a Republican official spotted alongside forensics experts in a restricted area argued it was “more of a permissible exercise of the County Elections Board’s authority” than a breach, according to the Washington Post.
In addition to Coffee County, the state election board is also investigating communications Spalding County officials had with SullivanStrickler about conducting a review of the voting systems there, CNN reported. It is not clear whether Spalding County equipment was breached, but SullivanStrickler insists it did not image the systems.
“We did not image any equipment in Spalding County,” an attorney for SullivanStrickler said. “We will continue to cooperate with law enforcement on any investigation as we have done up until now.”
During the aftermath of the 2020 election, lawyers associated with former President Donald Trump and his campaign tapped SullivanStrickler to investigate voting systems in Clark County, Nevada, Wayne County, Michigan, Antrim County, Michigan, Coffee County, Georgia, and elsewhere, according to court documents.
Sidney Powell was among the lawyers who made a request to SullivanStrickler. Forensics experts may have garnered access to “personally identifiable information” of nearly 7 million voters in Georgia, David Cross, a lawyer for plaintiffs involved in the lawsuit against SullivanStrickler, claimed, according to the New York Times.
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Data that originated from Clark County were exhibited at MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell’s election symposium last year.
The Washington Examiner reached out to representatives for SullivanStrickler and the FBI for comment. A spokesperson for Georgia’s Secretary of State’s Office confirmed the office is investigating the incident alongside the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.
