New footage confirms fake Trump elector spent hours inside Georgia elections office

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: CNN Politics

Washington CNN — A Republican county official in Georgia and operatives working with an attorney for former President Donald Trump spent hours inside a restricted area of the local elections office on the day voting systems there were breached, newly obtained surveillance video shows. The video reveals for the first time what happened inside the Coffee County elections office on January 7, 2021, the same day its voting systems are known to have been compromised.

Among those seen in the footage is Cathy Latham, a former GOP chairwoman of Coffee County who is under criminal investigation for posing as a fake elector in 2020. CNN previously reported that Latham escorted operatives working with former Trump lawyer Sidney Powell through the front door of the elections office on January 7, 2021. The new footage appears to undercut previous claims by Latham that she was not “personally involved” in the breach.

The new video, obtained as part of a years-long civil lawsuit in Georgia related to the security of voting systems there, shows Latham remained in the office for hours as those same operatives set up computers near election equipment and appear to access voting data. The footage also features the two men Latham escorted into the building earlier that day, Scott Hall and Paul Maggio, both of whom have acknowledged they were part of a team that gained access to Coffee County’s voting systems.

Maggio did not respond to CNN’s request for comment. The data firm he works for, SullivanStrickler, which court documents show was hired by Powell, previously said in a statement to CNN 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.” In an August 29, 2022 email, an attorney for SullivanStrickler acknowledges that Latham was the “primary point of contact” in coordinating the team’s visit to Coffee County.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/20/politics/surveillance-footage-coffee-county-georgia-fake-trump-elector/index.html

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Full headline: New footage confirms fake Trump elector spent hours inside Georgia elections office day it was breached

[kacekwl]

1. I'm sure she'll be

placed under arrest along with the others any day now.

[BumRushDaShow]

3. Since "elections" are run by states

the state of GA has already set their sights on her and she had her electronic subpoenaed as part of their probe (and her lawyers have been trying to quash the subpoena). She had given a sworn deposition about her involvement primarily being to "meet" the criminals and then she left for the rest of the day... and this video essentially snags her for perjury.

Lawyers seek data in Georgia election equipment breach

By KATE BRUMBACK
Published: Sep. 20, 2022 at 6:50 AM EDT|Updated: 2 hours ago

ATLANTA (AP) — A former Republican Party official in Georgia who was a fake elector in 2020 misrepresented her role in an alleged breach of voting equipment at a rural elections office two months after the last presidential election, according to a court filing. The filing late Monday is part of a broader lawsuit challenging the security of the state’s voting machines that has been drawn into a separate investigation of former President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn his loss in Georgia.

According to the latest filing, Cathy Latham helped coordinate the arrival of a computer forensics team at the Coffee County elections office on Jan. 7, 2021, welcomed them upon arrival and spent nearly all day there instructing them what to copy. That turned out to be “virtually every component of the voting system,” the court filing says. That directly refutes her testimony in a sworn deposition and her representations in filings with the court, the document states.

The filing comes in response to Latham’s attorneys’ attempt to quash subpoenas for her personal electronic devices, including any cell phones, computers and storage devices. Robert Cheeley, an attorney for Latham, did not respond to an email seeking comment. He previously said his client doesn’t remember all the details of that day. But he said she “would not and has not knowingly been involved in any impropriety in any election” and “has not acted improperly or illegally.”

Latham said in a deposition last month that she moved to Texas over the summer. In January 2021, she was chair of the Coffee County Republican Party and was the state party caucus chair for more than 125 of Georgia’s smaller counties. Latham also was one of 16 Georgia Republicans who signed a certificate in December 2020 falsely stating that Trump had won the state and declaring that they were the state’s “duly elected and qualified” electors.

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https://www.wafb.com/2022/09/20/lawyers-seek-data-georgia-election-equipment-breach/

Video appears to undercut Trump elector’s account of alleged voting-data breach in Georgia


By Jon Swaine and Emma Brown

Updated September 20, 2022 at 1:04 a.m. EDT|Published September 20, 2022 at 12:00 a.m. EDT


On Jan. 7, 2021, a group of forensics experts working for lawyers allied with President Donald Trump spent eight hours at a county elections office in southern Georgia, copying sensitive software and data from its voting machines. Under questioning last month for a civil lawsuit, a former Georgia Republican Party official named Cathy Latham said in sworn testimony that she briefly stopped by the office in Coffee County that afternoon. She said she stayed in the foyer and spoke with a junior official about an unrelated matter at the front desk.

“I didn’t go into the office,” Latham said, according to a transcript of her deposition filed in court. She said she had seen in passing a pro-Trump businessman who was working with the experts. She said they chatted for “five minutes at most” — she could not remember the topic — and she left soon after for an early dinner with her husband.

Surveillance video footage reviewed by The Washington Post shows that Latham visited the elections office twice that day, staying for more than four hours in total. She greeted the businessman, Scott Hall, when he arrived and led him into a back area to meet the experts and local officials, the video shows. Over the course of the day, it shows, she moved in and out of an area where the experts from the data forensics firm, SullivanStrickler, were working, a part of that building that was not visible to the surveillance camera. She took a selfie with one of the forensics experts before heading out at 6:19 p.m.

A Post examination found that elements of the account Latham gave in her deposition on the events of Jan. 6 and 7, 2021, appear to diverge from the footage and other evidence, including depositions and text messages. Many of those records, including Latham’s Aug. 8 deposition, were filed in a long-running federal civil court case involving election security in Georgia.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2022/09/20/coffee-county-georgia-cathy-latham/

IOW, she's fucked.

[LiberalFighter]

7. I don't see how leaving the day and allowing them continued access exonerates her.

What type of logic is that?

[BumRushDaShow]

9. Well what makes this worse

is that she lied in a sworn deposition about only being there "briefly" and "no more than 5 minutes". In fact the entire thing was a fabriation. The WaPo article (no paywall link) has a blow by blow that is simply breathtaking.

She got the focus because of being a fake elector but apparently others were involved.

[edhopper]

2. If you think this is the only place

around the country this happened....

And it will be far worse this November, when the GOP has made no secret that they will try to steal this election.

[BumRushDaShow]

5. It was widely publicized for every state that did a bogus "audit"

which includes those who utilized Cyber Ninjas and/or their affiliates, like AZ and here in PA. These bogus "forensic investigations" were done explicitly against places that used Dominion Voting equipment

This is partly why Dominion Voting Systems has multiple $1.x billion dollar lawsuits against Faux and their gasbags, as well as the Kracken lawyers who spearheaded these "audits" and "forensic analyses".

[Timeflyer]

4. They can't win if they don't cheat, and they're okay with that...

[IronLionZion]

10. They still lost

that's the best part

[dalton99a]

6. Kick

[IronLionZion]

8. She'll claim fake news, fake video, deep state

anything instead of a Trump operative lying while under criminal investigation

[LetMyPeopleVote]

11. Here is VIDEO of Trump Elector Kathy Latham breaching a restricted area

Link to tweet

[Farmer-Rick]

12. I'm just confused, why did they do this after the vote

I would have thought they would have done this before the vote was done, counted and recorded.

Maybe trying to just confused people and rig the votes to make it look like they were counted inaccurately?

I don't understand the purpose of the breach of election data.

[BumRushDaShow]

13. "I don't understand the purpose of the breach of election data."

Dominion Voting Systems and/or Smartmatic machines (I believe in all the cases where these bogus "audits" occurred utilized these machines). I expect it was not only to sow doubt in election results period, but to justify "alternate" (fake) electors and also to criminally gain access to the systems in order to tamper with future votes.

In some cases like GA, MI, and PA, they picked red counties to mess with the machines as part of their conspiracy as they would be easier access. In others like AZ, they were doing it with blue counties.

Which is why there are multiple $1.x billion dollar lawsuits against the purveyors and amplifiers of the "Big Lie®" and their defamation of those machines.

Forbes has a whole status (updated as of yesterday) of all the lawsuits from the companies against the loons who spearheaded and promoted this - https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2022/09/19/after-court-lets-fox-news-challenge-move-forward-heres-where-dominion-and-smartmatic-defamation-suits-stand-now-and-who-could-be-next/?sh=403d983f49cc

[Farmer-Rick]

14. Thanks for the info

I wondered if I understood the why of it.

[BumRushDaShow]

15. When people use the term "Saving our Democracy"

and with many of us (sometimes even me) thinking that as a bit hyperbolic, the more the layers are peeled back, the more we are finding that the phrase really isn't hyperbolic at all.

I think there were various and sundry plans over the years that had been hatched and shelved but the 2020 election seemed to encourage these pre-packaged fraudulent actions to be tried - even if as a test - and it is insidious knowing that Turtle spent 4 years packing the courts in an effort to get some of them to become "legal" and normalized.

Fortunately President Biden and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer have pushed to balance that court-packing by prioritizing judicial nominees for confirmation, and critically at the Appellate Court level, where something like 90+% of the cases filed will end, and never get appealed to or are rejected by the SCOTUS.

[d_r]

16. for a county that is 26% black

that sure is a lot of white folks acting like they are at home in the county elections office

[FakeNoose]

17. Georgia elected Biden by a razor thin margin in November 2020

It was only about 8,000 votes that decided Georgia for Biden. It's scary to think how close these election fraud criminals came to throwing the entire state to Chump.

[BumRushDaShow]

19. And they ended up doing 3 recounts in GA

IIRC.

[slightlv]

18. I'm so sick of these people,

they're taking away my respect for humans in general. Now, I really *want* to preface my conversations will all new people with are you an R or a D. If they answer an R, I want to walk about mumbling out loud. I don't want to even give them the benefit of the doubt anymore, even though I *know* some decent people who vote R on conservative financial issues -- not social issues. But even those friendships are gone, because I no longer trust them, even.

These people are the reason for that. I hate them, and because of that, they've tainted every R relationship I managed to make peace with in any way, shape, or form...