An “expert witness list” was filed in court after a Michigan judge ruled that the names of the so-called “forensic investigators” who filed a report about Dominion Voting Systems machines in Antrim County could be released.
The court document was filed by the plaintiff’s attorney in the lawsuit, Matthew DePerno, and includes five names along with a description about what each person is expected to testify. Included are Russell Ramsland, James Wadron, and Doug Logan. Also on the list are Greg Feemyer and Paul Maggio of Atlanta-based data security company Sullivan Strickler.
Other witnesses include attorney Katherine Friess, C. James Hayes, and Todd Sanders, according to the Traverse City Record-Eagle, which cited a document from the Michigan attorney general’s office. Despite the release, it is not clear what role each of the witnesses might have played in the “forensic” investigation of the voting machines, which yielded a report that Dominion CEO John Poulos blasted as “technically incomprehensible.”
“What role each one played in the preparation of the report, my understanding is we won’t know until these individuals are deposed,” said Haider Kazim, the attorney representing Antrim County.
The Washington Examiner reached out to Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel’s office for more information about the names but did not immediately receive a response.
A scheduling order signed by Judge Kevin Elsenheimer of the 13th Circuit says attorneys have until April 8 to complete discovery. A settlement conference is scheduled for May 11, and the Traverse City Record-Eagle reports that a non-jury trial, if one becomes necessary, is slated for June 8.
The report in question was produced by the Allied Security Operations Group, a Dallas-based cybersecurity firm, and signed by Ramsland, a cybersecurity analyst who is also a former Republican congressional candidate and right-wing activist who has made baseless claims of voter fraud in other states. The ASOG report claims that Dominion machines are “intentionally and purposefully designed with inherent errors to create systemic fraud and influence election results.”
Poulos, Dominion’s CEO, testified under oath that the report was “categorically false” and was released by a “biased group,” in reference to ASOG. Waldron, one of the expert witnesses listed by the plaintiff’s counsel, also testified at the Senate Oversight Committee hearing with former President Donald Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani.
Giuliani and so-called “Kraken” attorney Sidney Powell are now facing $1.3 billion defamation lawsuits filed by Dominion because of their claims of election fraud, including that it somehow has ties to former Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez.
“Ramsland’s report on the ‘forensic examination’ of the Dominion machines in Antrim County contains a staggering number of inaccuracies; obvious misunderstandings of election procedures, hardware, and software; and other indicia of unreliability,” the lawsuit against Giuliani reads.
Dominion also sent DePerno, the attorney in the Antrim County case, a cease-and-desist letter.
DePerno argued in court that the names of the “forensic investigators” shouldn’t be released to the public because of a risk to their safety and threats that he and others have received. He also attacked Nessel, who intervened in the case on behalf of Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, as “extremely partisan and militant.” Elsenheimer ruled against the plaintiff this month, saying that stopping the release of the investigators’ identities would be “extraordinary.”
Antrim County grabbed the attention of former President Donald Trump and his allies after some 6,000 votes were incorrectly tabulated for President Biden instead of Trump in an initial tally. The problem was quickly fixed and attributed to human error rather than that of Dominion Voting Systems. But the focus of the lawsuit, brought by Antrim County resident William Bailey, is a challenge to a local marijuana retailer proposal that passed by a slim margin following a retabulation not factoring in three damaged ballots.
The Antrim County case was one of dozens of (mostly failed) legal challenges filed in the wake of Biden’s win against Trump in the Nov. 3 contest.
