The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for Aug. 16, 2023

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In a follow up to our past reports on Coffee County, GA, Monday’s RICO indictment of former President Donald Trump includes evidence of alleged COORDINATION of voting machine tampering by Trump’s legal team, and indictments of lead actors involved in the alleged access to, and tampering with the county’s ballot tabulation machines.

Indicted Attorney Sidney Powell allegedly initiated the effort to breach Coffee County’s voting data by hiring Atlanta legal tech firm Sullivan-Strickler to coordinate the tampering effort.  Tampering suspect Scott Hall has been charged with conspiracy, computer trespass, conspiracy to commit election fraud, among several other charges.  Coffee County Elections Director Misty Hampton, who allegedly invited and gave access to the tampering team, faces similar charges.   

Also among the indicted is Cathleen Latham, then chair of the Coffee County GOP, who faces the same computer theft and conspiracy charges, but also impersonating a public officer, forgery, and filing false statements charges. 

Notably absent from the indictment were Doug Logan, founder of Cyber Ninjas, and Paul Maggio, mentioned only in the indictment as “Chief Operations Officer of SullivanStrickler LLC,” whom the indictment indicates was the point person at the firm and was allegedly present in the Coffee County elections office.  Logan was given access two weeks later, and was allegedly involved in a similar tampering incident in Michigan, but has not been charged in either case.   

We have a link to the AP’s searchable indictment on AmericanDemocracyMinute.org.  I’m Brian Beihl.

Today’s Links

Articles & Resources:
Associated Press – Full Searchable Indictment from the Fulton County Superior Court
Associated Press – Video shows ‘unauthorized access’ to Ga. election equipment
Reuters – (2022) Michigan widens probe into voting system breaches by Trump allies
CNN – Text messages reveal Trump operatives considered using breached voting data to decertify Georgia’s Senate runoff in 2021
CNN – Exclusive: Georgia prosecutors have messages showing Trump’s team is behind voting system breach

Sullivan|Strickler – Management Team
The Guardian –  Trump allies face potential charges in Georgia over voting machine breaches

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Today’s Links
Articles:
Associated Press:  Arizona official refutes review that counted 282 dead voters
Arizona Mirror:  Brnovich: Senate ‘audit’ dead wrong it its claims that deceased voters cast 2020 ballots
The Hill:  Cyber Ninjas shutting down after judge fines Arizona audit company $50K a day
NPR:  Election denier Finchem wins GOP nomination to oversee voting in Arizona
Groups Taking Action
Election Protection Arizona, One Arizona, League of Women Voters Arizona, Arizona Democracy Resource Center

You’re listening to the American Democracy Minute, keeping YOUR government by and for the people.

We’re continuing with Tin Foil Hat week here on the American Democracy Minute with a breaking story from Arizona.   A sham audit group hired in 2021 to review Arizona’s 2020 election results claimed to find 282 dead people who had voted. As the Arizona Mirror headline puts it, they were “Dead Wrong.”  

The Associated Press reports that Arizona Attorney General & U.S. Senate candidate Mark Brnovich said his office found only one dead voter after reviewing the findings of the Cyber Ninjas, a company with questionable credentials hired by the Arizona Senate.

All but one of the 282 were in fact living, and were surprised to learn that they were allegedly dead.  Combined with the Secretary of State’s own investigations, there were just over 400 total questionable voters, and all but a handful have been cleared up.  None affected the outcome of the election, and as for the one legitimate case Cyber Ninjas did find, it was caught by election officials and not counted.

Cyber Ninjas went out of business in January, after a county report found the review riddled with errors and had a flawed methodology. That was followed by a judge fining the company $50,000 a day if they did not turn over texts, emails and documents of the publicly-financed review to the Arizona Republic newspaper.   

Tuesday night, Mark Finchem, an election denier and January 6th insurrection participant, became the Republican nominee to replace Mark Brnovich as Secretary of State. 

Articles and groups taking action at AmericanDemocracyMinute.org.                          

For the American Democracy Minute, I’m Brian Beihl.

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