My introduction to the pre-2020,
post-2020, and sustained Trump 2020 “Big Lie” claims that the election would be
“rigged, fraudulent, and such” as he clings to that false claim every
single day.
His his post-election loss and sustained rabid campaign has gone nowhere even as he lost over 60 court cases
including two USSC rulings against him.
Now here we go once again
just like the bogus “Cyber Ninjas” audit of the vote and recount in AZ that went nowhere (in this short 2:27 minute
video from AZ), also, comes along a similar post-election in Coffee County,
GA under very weird circumstances just like the “Cyber Ninjas” one in AZ where the audit proved that Trump lost and in
fact Joe Biden picked up over 300 more votes than the original vote count previously
had shown.
This new story is from The Washington Post with this headline:
“Court filing offers new evidence of post-election breach in Coffee County, GA”
A cybersecurity executive who has aided efforts by election deniers to investigate the 2020 vote said in a recent court document that he had “forensically examined the voting system used in Coffee County, GA”— the strongest indication yet that the security of election equipment there may have been compromised following Donald Trump’s loss.
Representatives for Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger in GA said in April
that while his office had investigated several election-related issues in
Coffee County, none appeared to amount to a breach of equipment.
In May, The Washington Post also reported that former county elections official Misty
Hampton had opened her offices to a man who was active in the
election-denier movement to help investigate after the 2020 vote.
Recounting the incident to
The Post, Hampton said she did not know what the man, bail bond business owner
Scott Hall, and his team did in her office.
In the new document, a sworn declaration filed in a civil case in
federal court in AZ, Benjamin Cotton,
founder of the digital forensics firm “CyFIR” wrote that he had examined Dominion
Voting Systems used in several jurisdictions. Among them were Coffee County, GA; Mesa County, CO; and Maricopa County, AZ where he worked as a contractor on a
Republican-commissioned ballot review.
The episode in Coffee County is one in a steady drip of revelations since the 2020 election about attempts by Trump allies to examine or copy tightly guarded voting machines to search for evidence of fraud.
Some of
those attempts have been aided by like-minded election officials, raising
concerns about insiders as a growing threat to election security.
The Mesa County, CO case involving Tina Peters, former clerk of Mesa County.
Her legal woes here from The Washington Post. Peters was indicted in March on charges stemming from her participation in a successful effort to allow outsiders to copy voting-machine hard drives.
Peters denied
wrongdoing and now she is running to be the Republican nominee for Secretary
of State.
The federal government considers
voting systems to be “critical infrastructure” vital to national security, and
preventing unauthorized physical access to machines is seen as essential to
protecting them from manipulation.
Since 2020, machines in
several jurisdictions have been decertified because their chain of custody
after the election was broken or uncertain.
Cotton, who said in his declaration that he has more than 26 years of experience in computer forensics and has testified as an expert witness, did not detail which components of the Coffee County voting system he claimed to have examined.
Also, he did not he explain how he gained access to voting system data from Coffee or provide evidence of his examination beyond the descriptions of his findings.
The findings generally describe what Cotton says
he found in the counties’ systems collectively and are not specific to Coffee.
The Cotton declaration was first reported by a “disinformation researcher” who posts on Twitter under the name “Trapezoid of Discovery.”
The document
alleges a number of security vulnerabilities in the Dominion systems. It
concludes that the election system machines and networks do not meet industry
certification standards.
The declaration was filed by lawyers for two Republican candidates who are suing to block Arizona from using electronic voting machines in the November 2022 midterm election, citing in part the findings of Cotton and others who worked on the GOP-commissioned ballot review.
The plaintiffs — election deniers who have sought to overturn
Joe Biden’s 2020 victory — are Kari Lake, who is running for governor, and Mark
Finchem, who is running for secretary of state.
The defendants, supervisors in Maricopa and Pima counties and Secretary of State Katie Hobbs (D), have moved to dismiss the case, arguing that it is based on a host of misleading and false claims.
The specific claims
about security vulnerabilities arising from the ballot review were, the
counties said, “baseless findings that have been debunked.” Secretary Hobbs
called them “vague, speculative allegations of potential security risks.”
Cotton did not respond to requests for comment. Lawyers for
Lake and Finchem also did not respond to requests for comment.
My 2 Cents: It took me a while
to read through the exceptional Washington post articles and then I did my own research
and linked additional pertinent places as well like the one below:
From Politico’s article headline: “Read the never-issued Trump order that
would have seized voting machines.”
The January 6 select panel
has obtained the draft order and a document titled: “Remarks on National
Healing. Both are reported here in detail for the first time.
A major part of that story is: The Trump EO — which also would have appointed a special counsel to probe the 2020 election — was never issued.
The remarks are a draft of a speech
Trump gave the next day. Together, the two documents point to the wildly
divergent perspectives of White House advisers and allies during Trump’s
frantic final weeks in office.
It’s not clear who wrote
either document. But the draft executive order is dated December 16, 2020, and
is consistent with proposals that lawyer Sidney Powell made to Trump.
On December 18, 2020,
Powell, along with former Trump NSA advisor, Michael Flynn; former Trump administration
lawyer Emily Newman; and, former Overstock.com CEO Patrick Byrne met with Trump
in the Oval Office. In that meeting, Powell urged Trump to seize voting
machines and to appoint her as a special counsel to investigate the election (according to Axios).
A spokesperson for the
House’s January 6 select committee confirmed earlier that the panel had
received the last of the documents that Trump’s lawyers tried to keep under
wraps and later declined to comment for this story on these two documents.
Continue the articles and evidence linked
above. It is worthwhile.
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