7, 2021, and copied software and data from election equipment. In Georgia, the county elections director and a member of the board of elections were present when a computer forensics team hired by Trump allies traveled to the elections office in rural Coffee County on Jan. She has pleaded not guilty and contends the charges are politically motivated. A group of voters then circulated petitions, prompting the recall election.įormer Mesa County, Colorado, clerk Tina Peters faces seven felony charges for allegedly allowing a copy of a hard drive to be made while searching for fraud during a 2021 update of election equipment. Michigan State Police started an investigation to determine if any tampering had been done, but no criminal charges were filed.

Scott told The Detroit News that she didn’t trust other officials to maintain custody of the data. The tablet “is the computer that contains software, an operating system, and some mirrored election data from previous elections,” said Abe Dane, Hillsdale County’s chief deputy clerk. It was later seized by Michigan State Police after Scott allegedly refused to turn it over. She was stripped of her duties in October 2021.Īnd when the Hillsdale County clerk’s office took custody of an election tabulator and a voter assist terminal from township offices to prepare for a public accuracy test, they discovered the tabulator’s tablet had been removed.

The state intervened after Scott allegedly refused to allow a contractor to perform preventive maintenance and failed to conduct accuracy tests, among other issues.

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