How a County GOP Chair Coordinated a Voting Machine Breach

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EXCLUSIVE: Text messages reveal a secret mission from a local GOP county chair—and fake elector for Donald Trump—to examine an elections computer.

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How a County GOP Chair Coordinated a Voting Machine Breach
Text messages reveal a secret mission from a local GOP county chair—and fake elector for Donald Trump—to examine an elections computer.
7:48 PM · Jun 4, 2022

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DOUGLAS, GEORGIA—The Georgia Secretary of State claims it’s investigating how a local election supervisor gave a cadre of 2020 election truthers improper access to an election computer system—what initially seemed like the latest example of rogue actors misusing their government positions to cast doubt on President Joe Biden’s victory over Donald Trump.

But that investigation may expose a far more sinister plot than previously suspected.

According to text messages obtained by The Daily Beast, the covert access granted to Atlanta bail bondsman Scott Hall and his technical team was actually part of a coordinated effort to find election irregularities. And the effort, it turns out, was led by a local elections official and the chair of the rural county’s Republican Party—who was also one of former President Donald Trump’s infamous slate of fake electors.

Last month, The Washington Post revealed that the Secretary of State’s office was investigating the matter. But the never-before-reported text messages shed new light on who arranged the possibly illegal access to the computer and who was on the team that traveled south to do it. The Secretary of State’s office is already fighting off a lawsuit over the security of the state’s voting machines and may face tough questions before a federal judge next week, given that the Coffee County incident demonstrates the state’s inability to keep its machines off limits.

The situation has election cybersecurity experts concerned about the actual danger to election systems posed by these vigilante expeditions, which are mainly driven by disproven conspiracy theories.

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[cstanleytech]

1. Sounds like some people should be arrested. nt

[towerbum]

2. republican felonies just keep adding up !

who need's poll's ? we need worker's to keep track of all felonies! republican's might be filling up the prison population! what's cool- no pardon's !

[KS Toronado]

3. Another good reason to quit using voting machines

In this day & age of computer hackers this problem will never go away, just get worse. As long as we
allow hackers to have "toys" to play with, they will play especially if some oligarch is paying them.

Shame we don't have a national voting rights bill that states every registered voter gets a ballot mailed
to him with his/her name and address printed on it. If every voter got a ballot automatically mailed
to them, I believe we'd see the R party almost disappear.

[Attilatheblond]

4. GOP County Chairman in Cochise County, AZ also a fake elector

A pal has collected the evidence, there are photos, there are copies of the papers the GOP chair of the county signed as an 'elector', yet the fraudster still denies and it has been like pulling teeth from a wolf to get local press and officials to look into it.

I advise EVERYONE to compare the lists of fake electors with local officials, GOP party officials in their area to see if there is any overlap. Then scream until local press/media starts covering this, the FBI/DOJ starts investigating, and we see some indictments.