So CNN put out an article about the GA prosecutor looking to bring a case against Trump.
Well this sounds serious. Voting System breach? That sounds really serious. I would think the average person reading that headline would think that the Trump team had breached the voting system during the election which lead to false output.
"CNN —
Atlanta-area prosecutors investigating efforts to overturn the 2020 election results in Georgia are in possession of text messages and emails directly connecting members of Donald Trump’s legal team to the early January 2021 voting system breach in Coffee County, sources tell CNN."
"January 2021 voting system breach".
January. Wouldn't that be after the ballot casting was done? Why yes. Ballots were cast on Nov 3. So whatever this "breach" is, it didn't occur during the casting of ballots. It would also appear that this breach occurred after the counting. Still though, if there was a "breach" of voting systems, then we should know who did it. After all, voting systems should not be breached by unauthorized parties.
"Trump allies attempted to access voting systems after the 2020 election as part of the broader push to produce evidence that could back up the former president’s baseless claims of widespread fraud."
Interesting. So Trump's allies were trying to find (produce) evidence of voter fraud. In the process they "attempted to access voting systems". I see. So they hired a hacker or some other "black hat" group to "breach" the voting systems? Is that what we're alleging?
"Since then, new evidence has slowly been uncovered about the role of Trump’s attorneys, the operatives they hired and how the breach, as well as others like it in other key states, factored into broader plans for overturning the election."
"Operatives they hired..." Perhaps a clandestine hacking group. This may be a serious problem.
"Together, the text messages and other court documents show how Trump lawyers and a group of hired operatives sought to access Coffee County’s voting systems in the days before January 6, 2021,"
Lawyers and "operatives". Oh my. Trump got his lawyers to get some "operatives" to "Breach" the voting system in order to "produce evidence". This is sounding really bad for Trump.
"Six days before pro-Trump operatives gained unauthorized access to voting systems, the local elections official who allegedly helped facilitate the breach sent a “written invitation” to attorneys working for Trump, according to text messages obtained by CNN."
Operatives gained "unauthorized access" to voting systems...had been given a "written invitation"?
"On January 1, 2021 – days ahead of the January 7 voting systems breach – Katherine Friess – an attorney working with Giuliani, Sidney Powell and other Trump allies shared a “written invitation” to examine voting systems in Coffee County with a group of Trump allies.
So there was a "written invitation' to examine voting systems in a county.
"Investigators have scrutinized the actions of various individuals who were involved, including Misty Hampton, a former Coffee County elections official who authored the letter of invitation referenced in text messages and other documents that have been turned over to prosecutors, multiple sources told CNN."
So a county election official, Misty Hampton, wrote a "letter of invitation" to the Trump team to examine the voting systems.
If you have an invite to enter a place then you have NOT breached it.
There is no breach.
At worst, Misty Hampton did not have the authority to write such a letter or grant permission to examine voting systems. THAT would be a charge against her, not Trump or his team.
"During that same meeting, Giuliani alluded to a plan to gain “voluntary access” to machines in Georgia, according to testimony from him and others before the House January 6 committee."
"Gain voluntary access..."
A "breach" is not "voluntary access".
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She and another location elections official, Cathy Latham, allegedly helped Trump operatives gain access to the county’s voting systems, according to documents, testimony and surveillance video produced as part of a long-running civil lawsuit focused on election security in Georgia.
Latham, who also served as a fake elector from Georgia after the 2020 election, has come under scrutiny for her role in the Coffee County breach after surveillance video showed she allowed unauthorized outsiders to spend hours examining voting systems there."
Again. If the county official invites your team to examine the voting system then you have not "breached" the voting system. There is no breach as far as this report goes. There *may* be officials who overstepped their authority. But that falls on the official, not the people they duped into believing they had the authority to do what they did.
This goes back to the Jan 6 prosecutions. When the videos came out on Tucker, I wrote about it. I mentioned that the key issue was whether the person knew they were trespassing. When the police were walking Shaman around the capitol building had they informed him that he was not authorized? These points matter. If the Trump team went to the extent of getting a "written invite" to examine the voting machines, then there is no criminal intent, and thus no crime.
The problem is that the justice system [sic] is so corrupted, that obvious stuff like this will still make it to a grand jury, a grand jury will indict (because orange man bad) and judges won't throw out these obviously fake charges and juries will convict. When the appeal finally gets it right, the defendant is drained of resources, had their reputation damaged and the people responsible will not have any accountability to deal with.
