Election deniers repeatedly visited workplace at middle of hacked elections machine investigation

A group of election deniers made repeated visits to a Georgia elections workplace that's on the middle of an investigation analyzing alleged breaches of voting gear within the weeks after the 2020 election.

Doug Logan and Jeffrey Lenberg, consultants from tech forensics agency SullivanStrickler, made a number of visits to the Espresso County elections workplace, in keeping with video footage obtained by the Washington Submit, indicating attainable hyperlinks between the 2 males and efforts to overturn the 2020 election leads to the state. The newly found video footage presents extra particulars into the county’s investigation of alleged makes an attempt by Trump allies to repeat election system information after the previous president’s loss.

DATA FROM ELECTION VOTING SYSTEMS SHARED WITH TRUMP ALLIES: REPORT

The revelation comes after it was reported final month that information from election programs had been apparently downloaded dozens of occasions by a number of allies of former President Donald Trump and revealed on-line, in keeping with the Submit. Not less than 10 individuals have downloaded election programs information from Michigan or Georgia from December 2020 to February 2021, prompting issues amongst officers who say the breaches might expose weaknesses of their programs and make them weak to future hacks.

The safety footage exhibits three SullivanStrickler workers arriving on the Espresso County elections workplace round 11:42 a.m. on Jan. 7, 2021, and being welcomed inside, in keeping with the outlet. Roughly an hour later, a fourth SullivanStrickler worker arrived. The Washington Examiner has reached out to the Espresso County, Georgia, elections workplace for remark.

Video footage exhibits Logan and Lenberg made no less than two visits collectively in January 2021, in keeping with the Washington Submit, with Lenberg making one other 5 solo journeys. The 2 males are additionally beneath investigation for related breaches of voting programs in Michigan.

The footage solely exhibits the outside constructing, making it unclear as to what occurred contained in the constructing in the course of the assembly. Nevertheless, spokespeople with SullivanStrickler have maintained its workers didn't conduct any wrongdoing.

The Georgia Bureau of Investigation commenced “a pc trespass investigation” final month into the info assortment at Espresso County, the outlet reported. The inquiry is analyzing whether or not tech specialists obtained the right authority to entry the info from Dominion Voting Programs in Espresso County, which reportedly occurred the day after the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.

SullivanStrickler advised the Washington Submit it might be "totally cooperative" with the evaluation and insisted its investigators "did nothing unsuitable and had been working in good religion."

The inquiry is a part of a broader investigation into whether or not Trump-linked legal professionals had dispatched SullivanStrickler to collect info or consider voting programs in Michigan, Georgia, and Nevada. The Washington Examiner reached out to a consultant for SullivanStrickler for remark.