Breach
They wanted to find evidence of voter fraud in Georgia, so they did everything they could to find some.
Atlanta-area prosecutors investigating efforts to overturn the 2020 election results in Georgia are in possession of text messages and emails directly connecting members of Donald Trump’s legal team to the early January 2021 voting system breach in Coffee County, sources tell CNN.
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is expected to seek charges against more than a dozen individuals when her team presents its case before a grand jury next week. Several individuals involved in the voting systems breach in Coffee County are among those who may face charges in the sprawling criminal probe.
Investigators in the Georgia criminal probe have long suspected the breach was not an organic effort sprung from sympathetic Trump supporters in rural and heavily Republican Coffee County – a county Trump won by nearly 70% of the vote. They have gathered evidence indicating it was a top-down push by Trump’s team to access sensitive voting software, according to people familiar with the situation.
Trump allies attempted to access voting systems after the 2020 election as part of the broader push to produce evidence that could back up the former president’s baseless claims of widespread fraud.
It’s not clear, to me at least, whether or not it’s a crime to try to get access to sensitive voting software. It sounds as if it might be, but also as if it might not. Can we all do that? Is it just a normal, if unusually energetic, attempt to make sure everything is kosher? Or is it an attempt to get access to something people are not allowed to get access to?
[T]he voting system breach in Coffee County quietly emerged as an area of focus for investigators roughly one year ago. Since then, new evidence has slowly been uncovered about the role of Trump’s attorneys, the operatives they hired and how the breach, as well as others like it in other key states, factored into broader plans for overturning the election.
Together, the text messages and other court documents show how Trump lawyers and a group of hired operatives sought to access Coffee County’s voting systems in the days before January 6, 2021, as the former president’s allies continued a desperate hunt for any evidence of widespread fraud they could use to delay certification of Joe Biden’s electoral victory.
Last year, a former Trump official testified under oath to the House January 6 select committee that plans to access voting systems in Georgia were discussed in meetings at the White House, including during an Oval Office meeting on December 18, 2020, that included Trump.
Six days before pro-Trump operatives gained unauthorized access to voting systems, the local elections official who allegedly helped facilitate the breach sent a “written invitation” to attorneys working for Trump, according to text messages obtained by CNN.
There’s my answer, I guess – they were looking for, and got, unauthorized access.
The messages and documents appear to link Giuliani to the Coffee County breach, while shedding light on another channel of communication between pro-Trump attorneys and the battleground state operatives who worked together to provide unauthorized individuals access to sensitive voting equipment.
There again. Unauthorized individuals, unauthorized access.
For all your technological progress, your electoral system is a shambolic throwback to horse and cart days. Are you worried about upsetting the Amish if you modernise?
Voting on Tuesday was fine when the franchise was restricted to those who could travel and let others get on with making them money. And when everyone was in Church on Sunday.
The Electoral College may have seemed like a good idea when it took days for news to travel.
But the biggest clusterfuck of all, the one that should have been changed a century ago, is letting the loser of an election maintain their position and power, and all that entails, for 3 months after they are tossed out by the electorate. Your founding fathers overturned one King and replaced him with another, slightly less powerful one.
Even if Trump spends the rest of his life in prison, the poison remains in the body politic. Are you brave enough to drain this poison, or will you forever remain trapped in the swamp?
I know, it’s a dreadful system. That has become all too HORRIFYINGLY CLEAR.
In my county, we use paper ballots. It is, of course, possible to tamper with those, but it’s harder to do sitting in your comfortable chair half a continent away. You have to actually put some work into it.
I have voted on all kinds of systems, including the old pull the lever one where you were behind a curtain. This one seems to work at least as well as any of them. And they put the ballot in the locked box right in front of you, so you can be sure they aren’t changing the marks.
In my part of Canada, we use paper ballots that are machine readable, so we have physical votes that are tabulated electronically, with the paper being available to count in the case of recounts. I wouldn’t want anything to do with a voting system that was electronic only.
Down here in the marvellous land of Oz we use paper ballots and pencils. Yes, PENCILS!
We rarely have a challenge to an election, and when we do, there is a robust process in place.
I also believe we may have the world’s biggest ballot paper. The white is the Senate, the green the House, and in some electorates, the green can have twice as many candidates as the one shown.
We also have compulsory voting. Although not compulsory to mark a ballot paper, every elector must attend a polling place and have their name marked off the roll or face a fine. Once there, may as well fill out the papers.
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not Bruce, that’s the same sort of system we have. I slide it into a silver cover with only a number showing. The poll worker slides it from the paper directly into the locked box. Once I have voted, they neither see nor touch it. Then the votes will be counted by machine, and hand tabulated if needed. It’s rarely needed here; we’re always 70% Republican, 25% Democrat, and 5% whatever. No surprises, no upsets, nothing to disturb the fine tenor of life in Trumpland.