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LetMyPeopleVote

(145,243 posts)
Tue Aug 16, 2022, 04:35 PM Aug 2022

Georgia Opens Criminal Investigation Into Trump Campaign Stealing Voter Data

Source: Politicusa

Trump attorney Sidney Powell helped coordinate the effort, and she was billed over $26,000 by computer experts from Atlanta tech company SullivanStrickler, the records show.

The GBI confirmed Tuesday that it has opened a criminal investigation of the incident on Jan. 7, 2021, when the group flew from Atlanta to South Georgia and were given access by local election officials to equipment that was supposed to be kept secure from outsiders. Computer theft is a felony punishable by up to 15 years in prison.

The same team that was part of the voter data breach in Michigan and Nevada stole voter data in Coffee County, Georgia. The team was supervised by the Trump campaign, as Sidney Powell coordinated the effort to steal voter data as they were trying to prove voter and election fraud that would have provided Donald Trump with a pretext to carry out his coup and stay in power.

Trump is already looking at the possibility of being indicted in Georgia for election meddling. The theft of the voter data, and the nation should be honest by calling it theft, is a separate investigation.

It is possible that Trump could also be charged for stealing election data, although Sidney Powell is likely to be looking at criminal charges if the investigation uncovers wrongdoing.

Read more: https://www.politicususa.com/2022/08/16/georgia-criminal-investigation-voter-data.html

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Georgia Opens Criminal Investigation Into Trump Campaign Stealing Voter Data (Original Post) LetMyPeopleVote Aug 2022 OP
Does anybody besides me think ... Novara Aug 2022 #1
That woman also needs to be indicted and prosecuted for election fraud. Lonestarblue Aug 2022 #2
That's what I thought, too, that they were trying to "find" those 11,780 votes that LaMouffette Aug 2022 #5
In Ohio election machines after the vote is printed out, the computer "stick" that recorded the vote Botany Aug 2022 #3
Same here in Indiana. Also, a Republican and Democrat travel with that pouch to BOE. LiberalFighter Aug 2022 #8
If those Trump mother fuckers broke the seals on those voting machines they are in deep shit. Botany Aug 2022 #9
Who even let them have access? LiberalFighter Aug 2022 #12
Begin with former BOE administrators Misty Hampton & Jil Ridlehoover slumcamper Aug 2022 #4
Well, $26K won't go far but still, the integrity of these (or this) machine broken, the guts spilled SWBTATTReg Aug 2022 #6
Throw it next to the other investigations. SergeStorms Aug 2022 #7
Here's hoping this makes big enough headlines to cue election officials nationwide to be on alert JudyM Aug 2022 #10
Yes! ShazzieB Aug 2022 #14
Right, and election workers need to know not to be cowed by officious repukes, trumpers or not. JudyM Aug 2022 #18
Can't go more than a few days without another crime turning up MissMillie Aug 2022 #11
Go get 'em Georgia!! liberalla Aug 2022 #13
This country really needs to up its game when it comes to protecting our election process 70sEraVet Aug 2022 #15
Talk to Manchin and Sinema, who would rather protect the filibuster than your right to vote. Novara Aug 2022 #16
The hits keep coming. iluvtennis Aug 2022 #17
If the investigation uncovers wrongdoing (?) RussBLib Aug 2022 #19
For this thread LetMyPeopleVote Aug 2022 #20

Novara

(5,842 posts)
1. Does anybody besides me think ...
Tue Aug 16, 2022, 04:41 PM
Aug 2022

... that it wasn't voter data they were stealing?

Perhaps they were trying to a) change the data, and if that fails, 2) copy the software so they can falsify results in the future?

At any rate, that woman needs to be billed to replace all of the machinery this fucked up. Once unauthorized people get into the systems, they are rendered contaminated and useless.

Lonestarblue

(9,990 posts)
2. That woman also needs to be indicted and prosecuted for election fraud.
Tue Aug 16, 2022, 04:48 PM
Aug 2022

Along with being disbarred from ever practicing law again. These people need to experience the consequences of their actions. At this rate, with so many Trump supporters committing crimes, the DOJ will spend years just getting them all through court!

LaMouffette

(2,030 posts)
5. That's what I thought, too, that they were trying to "find" those 11,780 votes that
Tue Aug 16, 2022, 05:25 PM
Aug 2022

Trump had tried to pressure Raffensperger into drumming up in that infamous phone call.

But, who knows what all they were up to? Maybe they were thinking ahead and planning to share the voter data with Russian spy Kilimnik, via Paul Manafort, again, the way they did during the 2016 election.

Botany

(70,506 posts)
3. In Ohio election machines after the vote is printed out, the computer "stick" that recorded the vote
Tue Aug 16, 2022, 04:49 PM
Aug 2022

the machine's paper print out, the log polling book, and the numbers and letters on the seals
that were put onto the voting machines are all loaded into a pouch which is then sealed and
sent onto the county's BOE. If Trump's crew including Sidney Powell broke those seals on those
voting machines to look at the machine's hardware they broke the law. End of story.

Botany

(70,506 posts)
9. If those Trump mother fuckers broke the seals on those voting machines they are in deep shit.
Tue Aug 16, 2022, 06:29 PM
Aug 2022

Sealed voting machines are supposed to be stored in a secured location and those seals are broken
shortly before the machines are to be used so as to run tests on the operating systems and just to
see if the machines are working and then new seals are put onto the machines only to be broken
when they are setting the machines up to be used .... either in early voting or on election day.

The idea that Ms. Powell and her crew got those machines out of storage, broke the machines seals,
and then went into the machines operating systems is highly illegal. God only knows what they did
once they had the machines opened up? They could have planted malware or put in some phony data
or looked at the O.S. for weaknesses or ?????

What kills me is those shit for brains should have known by election night the voting data in those
machines had already been removed. Election day was on 11/3/2020 and they were looking into
the machines on 1/7/21?

SWBTATTReg

(22,124 posts)
6. Well, $26K won't go far but still, the integrity of these (or this) machine broken, the guts spilled
Tue Aug 16, 2022, 05:55 PM
Aug 2022

out and who knows what they did later w/ anything of the information they stole. They all participated in the theft. Not just tRUMP, but powell, the techs, all of them.

SergeStorms

(19,201 posts)
7. Throw it next to the other investigations.
Tue Aug 16, 2022, 06:00 PM
Aug 2022

This guy is a one-man expansion of the legal profession. New law schools will need to be erected and law degrees fast-tracked, just for the sheer volume of crimes he and his cohorts have committed.

JudyM

(29,250 posts)
10. Here's hoping this makes big enough headlines to cue election officials nationwide to be on alert
Tue Aug 16, 2022, 06:40 PM
Aug 2022

for presumed authorities.

ShazzieB

(16,399 posts)
14. Yes!
Tue Aug 16, 2022, 07:39 PM
Aug 2022

Especially in the swing states where Team Trump was trying to get the results changed. All the machines in those states should be checked carefully.

70sEraVet

(3,503 posts)
15. This country really needs to up its game when it comes to protecting our election process
Tue Aug 16, 2022, 07:44 PM
Aug 2022

Tampering with voting machines is more serious than "computer theft! And harassing, intimidating or threatening election officials should be a FEDERAL offense!

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