Shipment of Voting Equipment Data Raises Questions about Criminal Conspiracy
A drive containing data from voting equipment in Georgia was sent to an investigator who seized five ballot tabulators in Michigan for a pro-Trump lawyer, according to court testimony and documents reviewed by the Free Press. The court records raise questions about the potential connection between a voting system breach in Georgia and experiments carried out on Michigan voting machines as part of an alleged criminal conspiracy. These separate criminal cases in the two battleground states may reveal new connections in the efforts to scrutinize the machines responsible for counting American votes.
Michigan lawyer Stefanie Lambert is at the center of the alleged scheme to illegally obtain Michigan voting machines, according to special prosecutor DJ Hilson. Lambert coordinated with others, including Michael Lynch, to investigate the 2020 election. Lynch, a licensed private investigator, does not face criminal charges related to the seizure of voting machines.
Lynch, who previously worked as a security officer for DTE Energy, obtained five voting machines as part of Lambert’s plan. He traveled across Michigan to obtain four tabulators in Missaukee and Roscommon counties and obtained a fifth tabulator from Barry County. Once the machines were in his possession, purported technology experts examined and tampered with them at Lynch’s Royal Oak condominium. The condominium served as the set for a professional filming of testing on one of the illegally obtained tabulators.
Court records indicate that a shipment, appearing to contain a data drive from a voting equipment breach in Coffee County, Georgia, was sent to Lynch’s Royal Oak address. The breach in Georgia was uncovered in a federal lawsuit, and charges were brought against Misty Hampton, the former elections director in Coffee County, for allegedly working with unauthorized individuals to extract data from voting equipment. Lambert served as Hampton’s lawyer in a civil lawsuit in Georgia.
Lynch returned one of the tabulators to Roscommon County in April 2021, but he did not return the others for months. Before returning the machines, a package containing the Georgia data was shipped to Lynch’s condo. Court records from the Georgia civil lawsuit reference an email from one of the computer experts involved in the Michigan machine experiments. The email requested a FedEx shipment of all the forensics material from the Coffee County acquisition to the same address as before. The shipment was addressed to Lambert at Lynch’s Royal Oak address.
The grand jury indictment in Georgia against former President Donald Trump and his allies mentions an email exchange about the shipment. It references an email sent on April 22, 2021, to SullivanStrickler’s chief operations officer, requesting the transmission of data copied from voting equipment in Coffee County to an unidentified lawyer associated with Sidney Powell and the Trump campaign. Powell and Lambert worked together in a federal lawsuit in Michigan to overturn the election.
These developments raise questions about the potential involvement of data from the Georgia breach in the examination of Michigan voting machines. The alleged criminal voting equipment breaches in two key states that Trump lost in 2020 may be connected through this shipment. Lambert and Lynch have not responded to requests for comment.
The ongoing investigation into these cases may reveal more connections and shed light on the extent of the alleged criminal conspiracy involving voting equipment.
Original Story at www.freep.com – 2023-08-31 10:08:23
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