The Georgia State Elections Board has asked the FBI to assist them in an ongoing criminal investigation into the voting system breach in Coffee County because of similarities between what happened there and incidents in other states where pro-Trump operatives gained access to voting systems with the help of local GOP elections officials after the 2020 election.
“The conduct in Coffee County is similar to conduct in Antrim County, Michigan, and Clark County, Nevada,” elections board Chairman William Duffey Jr. said, according to CNN.
The news network also reported Wednesday that the Georgia elections board is also investigating communications between local election officials in a second Georgia county and SullivanStrickler – the same cybersecurity firm hired by attorneys working for former President Donald Trump to access voting systems in Coffee County in January 2021.
The board said it has received evidence that includes an “unexecuted engagement agreement” for SullivanStrickler to forensically image voting systems in Spalding County, Georgia.
The move to summon the FBI to assist with their probe represents an escalation by state investigators in Georgia, raising new questions about whether the same group of individuals involved in the Coffee County breach sought access to voting systems in other parts of the state as well.
SullivanStrickler, which court documents show was hired by former Trump lawyer Sidney Powell, previously revealed that it was “directed by attorneys to contact county election officials to obtain access to certain data” in Georgia and also “directed by attorneys to distribute that data to certain individuals,” CNN reported.
Read the full report on CNN.
