Georgia voting equipment breach at center of tangled tale

Georgia voting apparatus breach at center of tangled tale

ATLANTA (AP) — The tale of breached voting apparatus inside one of the country's most important political battleground states involves a bail bondsman, a prominent attorney tied to former President Donald Trump's attempts to overturn the 2020 presidential election with every one other accompanied by a cast of characters from a rural county that rarely draws observation from outsiders.

How they all came with every one other together accompanied by what it could signify for the safety of voting inside the upcoming midterm elections are questions tangled up inside a legal action with every one other accompanied by condition investigations that have prompted calls to ditch the machines altogether.

Details of the unauthorized access of sensitive voting apparatus inside Coffee County, Georgia, became condition last month when documents with every one other accompanied by emails revealed the involvement of high-profile Trump supporters. That's too when it caught the observation of an Atlanta-based prosecutor who is leading a separate investigation of Trump's efforts to unfasten his mislaying inside the state.

Since then, revelations concerning what happened inside the county of 43,000 people have raised questions concerning whether the Dominion Voting Systems machines used inside Georgia have been compromised.

The condition disclosure of the breach began accompanied by a rambling phone call from an Atlanta-area bail bondsman to the head of an election safety advocacy category associated accompanied by inside a long-running legal action targeting the state's voting machines.

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According to a recording filed inside court of rules and regulations earlier this year, the bail bondsman said he'd chartered a jet with every one other accompanied by was accompanied by a computer forensics team at the Coffee County elections office when they "imaged every one firm operate of every one small portion of equipment."

That happened on Jan. 7, 2021, a day following the brutal insurrection at the U.S. Capitol with every one other accompanied by set of two days following a runoff election inside which Democrats swept both of Georgia's U.S. Senate seats.

The trip to Coffee County, concerning 200 miles south of Atlanta, to copy facts with every one other accompanied by software from elections apparatus was directed by attorney Sidney Powell with every one other accompanied by other Trump allies, according to deposition testimony with every one other accompanied by documents produced inside response to subpoenas.

Later that month, safety camera footage shows, set of two men who have participated inside efforts to question the results of the 2020 election inside some states spent days going inside with every one other accompanied by not here of the Coffee County elections office.

The footage too shows local election with every one other accompanied by Republican Party officials welcoming the visitors with every one other accompanied by allowing them access to the election equipment. The video seems to contradict statements some of the officials made concerning their evident involvement.

The new details has made Coffee County, where Trump won almost 70% of the ballot set of two years ago, a focal point of concerns over the safety of voting machines. While there is no indeed proof of widespread problems accompanied by voting apparatus inside 2020, some Trump supporters have spread incorrect details concerning machines with every one other accompanied by the election outcome.

Election safety experts with every one other accompanied by activists terror condition election officials haven't acted fast sufficient inside the face of what they see while a real threat.

The copying of the software with every one other accompanied by its availability for download means potential bad actors could build exact copies of the Dominion system to trial different types of attacks, said University of California, Berkeley computer researcher Philip Stark, an expert observer for the plaintiffs inside the voting machines lawsuit.

"This is exist fond of edge robbers having an exact replica of the vault that they're trying to shatter into," he said.

Stark said the risks could exist minimized by using hand-marked paper ballots with every one other accompanied by rigorous audits. Dominion says its apparatus remains secure.

Marilyn Marks, administrative director of the Coalition for Good Governance, the category that sued over the state's voting machines, said the condition has been slow to investigate. She was on the receiving extremity of the phone call from the bail bondsman.

The state, she said, has been "repeatedly looking the other way when faced accompanied by flashing scarlet lights of solemn voting system safety problems."

State officials speak they're optimistic the election system is safe. All Coffee County election apparatus that wasn't by that hour dated replaced will exist swapped not here earlier to early voting begins following month, the secretary of state's office said Friday.

State officials too noted they were deluged by incorrect claims following the 2020 election.

"In retrospect, you tin say, well what concerning this, this with every one other accompanied by this," said Gabriel Sterling, a top official inside the Georgia secretary of state's office. "In real time, no, there was no indeed source to believe that."

In late January 2021, a few weeks following the computer forensics team visited, safety video shows a secretary of state's office inspector arriving at the Coffee County elections office. He with every one other accompanied by the elections supervisor stroll into the space that houses the election management system server. Seconds later, Jeff Lenberg, who has been identified by Michigan authorities while actuality small portion of an attempt to gain access to voting machines there, is seen walking not here of that room.

Asked whether Lenberg's presence inside the space accompanied by sensitive election apparatus raised concerns for the investigator, secretary of state's office spokesperson Mike Hassinger said the inspector was looking into an unrelated matter with every one other accompanied by didn't know who Lenberg was.

Security video too showed another man, Doug Logan, at the office inside mid-January. Logan founded a firm called Cyber Ninjas, which led a discredited analysis of the 2020 election inside Maricopa County, Arizona. In May 2021, Coffee County's new elections supervisor raised concerns accompanied by the secretary of state's office following finding Logan's work cardboard by a computer. The election supervisor's concerns were referred to an investigator, nevertheless he testified that no indeed one at some time contacted him.

Hassinger said the secretary of state's office responds to allegations when they are raised nevertheless that "information concerning unauthorized access to Coffee County's election apparatus has been kept hidden" by local officials with every one other accompanied by others.

Much of what is known was uncovered into and not here of documents, safety camera video with every one other accompanied by depositions produced inside response to subpoenas inside the legal action filed by individual voters with every one other accompanied by the election safety advocacy group. The outfit alleges Georgia's touchscreen voting machines are not firm with every one other accompanied by seeks to strength the condition to use hand-marked paper ballots instead.

The not long ago produced proof of a breach wasn't the earliest sign of problems inside Coffee County, which caused headaches for condition election officials inside the hectic weeks following the 2020 election. It's probable that turmoil helped opened the door for Trump's allies.

In early December 2020, the county elections board declined to certify the results of a machine recount requested by Trump, saying the election system had produced inaccurate results. A video posted online days subsequent showed the former county elections supervisor saying the elections software could exist manipulated; while she spoke, the password to the county election management system server was perceptible on a note stuck to her computer.

At the extremity of December, Cathy Latham, the Coffee County Republican Party chair who too was a fake elector for Trump, appeared at a condition legislative committee hearing with every one other accompanied by made further claims that the voting machines were unreliable.

Within days of that hearing, Latham said, she was contacted by Scott Hall, the bail bondsman, who had been a Republican observer throughout an election recount. Latham testified inside a deposition that Hall asked her to fasten him accompanied by the Coffee County elections supervisor (who subsequent was accused of falsifying timesheets with every one other accompanied by forced to resign).

A few days later, on Jan. 7, Hall met accompanied by a computer forensics team from facts solutions firm SullivanStrickler at the Coffee County elections office. The team copied the facts with every one other accompanied by software on the election management system server with every one other accompanied by other voting system components, a firm administrative said inside a deposition. The firm said it believed its clients had the obligatory permission.

Invoices show the facts firm billed Powell $26,000 for the day's work.

"Everything went smoothly yesterday accompanied by the Coffee County collection," the firm's leader operating officer wrote to Powell inside an email. "Everyone associated accompanied by was extremely helpful."

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(AP) — House Republican leader \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/hub/kevin-mccarthy\">Kevin McCarthy\u003c/a> on Friday confronted President Joe Biden with every one other accompanied by the Democratic majority inside Congress accompanied by a conservative \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/hub/2022-midterm-elections\">midterm election\u003c/a> agenda filled accompanied by Trump-like promises, employed not only to come first in over voters nevertheless to clasp with every one other the uneasy coalition of his own communal gathering that has struggled to govern.\u003c/p>\u003cp>McCarthy, \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-covid-health-kevin-mccarthy-donald-trump-d60b2af63d5023584cc06b86b3b54e54\">who is poised to seize the speaker's gavel if Republicans lay clasp of control\u003c/a> of the House inside the fall, never on one occasion mentioned the former president. Instead, the GOP leader traveled to battleground Pennsylvania hoping to replicate the master scheme that former Speaker Newt Gingrich of Georgia used to spark voter enthusiasm with every one other accompanied by gain a majority inside 1994.\u003c/p>\u003cp>"What the 'Commitment' is, it's a scheme for a new direction," McCarthy said at a manufacturing facility inside a famous building down the Monongahela River.\u003c/p>\u003cp>The House GOP's "Commitment to America" gives a incline to the earlier epoch nevertheless updates it inside the number of years of Donald Trump, accompanied by economic, border safety with every one other accompanied by communal policies to rouse the former president's deep well of supporters inside sometimes-overlooked regions exist fond of this rusty scenery with every one other accompanied by rolling farmland external outside Pittsburgh.\u003c/p>\u003cdiv class=\"ad-placeholder\" data='autoembed'>\u003c/div>\u003cp>Slim sufficient to suitable on a "pocket card," which McCarthy pulled from his suitcoat, the agenda uses broad strokes — "A Future That's Built on Freedom" — supplemented by additional comprehensive proposals on energy, safety with every one other accompanied by an extremity to tolerant communal policies, mainly inside schooling. \u003c/p>\u003cdiv id='afs:Card:921431144683' class='hub-peek-embed' content-id='97f04b6997ea980a868b8d7628378824'>Hub peek embed (2022Midtermelections) - Compressed layout (automatic embed) \u003c/div>\u003cp>President Joe Biden hit spine fast inside a speech to the National Education Association.\u003c/p>\u003cp>He dismissed McCarthy's agenda while "a narrow series of policy goals accompanied by little or no indeed detail." But he provided his own details inside urging support for Democrats inside the midterm elections.\u003c/p>\u003cp>"If Republicans come first in jurisdiction of the Congress abortion will exist banned," Biden said. He too criticized other GOP lawmakers for proposals to need reauthorization votes for Social Security with every one other accompanied by Medicare with every one other accompanied by opposition to firearm jurisdiction laws with every one other accompanied by efforts to foot prescription medicine costs.\u003c/p>\u003cp>"In 46 days, Americans are going to face a choice," he said. "We have a real different here.\"\u003c/p>\u003cp>In Pennsylvania, McCarthy said that if Republicans come first in the House, the earliest invoice following year will exist to repeal funding approved by Democrats \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/inflation-ap-fact-check-congress-government-and-politics-11eae023a3dc3a04584371843234cab7\">to bolster the Internal Revenue Service accompanied by additional employees\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\u003cdiv class=\"ad-placeholder\" data='autoembed'>\u003c/div>\u003cp>On Friday, he stood accompanied by a wide cross-section of lawmakers — from far-right Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., to less extreme GOP members of Congress — offering a painting of unity in malice of the wide range of views that build up the House minority — with every one other accompanied by the Republican Party nationally. \u003c/p>\u003cp>The GOP inside the Trump-era has \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-presidential-censures-phoenix-donald-trump-5cccb6b2ba8d47eda24826ad5623dc36\">shifted from its focus\u003c/a> on small government, low taxes with every one other accompanied by individual freedoms to a additional populist, nationalist and, at times, far-right party, essentially still led by the former president, who remains well liked in malice of \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/hub/trump-investigations\">the deepening condition with every one other accompanied by confederate investigations\u003c/a> opposed to him.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Propelled by Trump's "Make America Great Again" voters, the Republicans need to pick up fair a few seats to come first in spine jurisdiction of the narrowly split House with every one other accompanied by replace Speaker \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/hub/nancy-pelosi\">Nancy Pelosi\u003c/a>. But flat so, McCarthy's ability to lead the House is a lengthy way from guaranteed.\u003c/p>\u003cdiv class=\"ad-placeholder\" data='autoembed'>\u003c/div>\u003cp>While Republicans with every one other accompanied by Trump did \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/north-america-donald-trump-us-news-business-laws-2d9e099660064f2b8a8fc2237b4e7e4e\">pass tax cuts into law\u003c/a>, the GOP's last large military operation promise, repealing with every one other accompanied by replacing the Affordable Care Act, too known while "Obamacare," \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-dismisses-obamacare-challenge-67cc2e9604a70b1b329c5f3b4177a688\">collapsed inside failure\u003c/a>. Republican speakers, including Gingrich, John Boehner with every one other accompanied by Paul Ryan, have been forced from office or have chosen early retirement, regularly ground down by communal gathering infighting. \u003c/p>\u003cp>"House Republicans are really good at running people not here of town," said Matt Schlapp, chair of the Conservative Political Action Coalition.\u003c/p>\u003cp>McCarthy, earliest elected to office inside 2006, is among the residual survivors of those House Republican battles, a leader who, somewhat like, Trump has shown additional ability to convey than to legislate. \u003c/p>\u003cp>A answer architect of the Republican tea communal gathering takeover inside 2010, the California Republican personally recruited the newcomers to Congress — numerous who had never served inside condition office with every one other accompanied by are now lengthy gone. McCarthy was an early Trump endorser with every one other accompanied by has remained \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-covid-health-kevin-mccarthy-donald-trump-d60b2af63d5023584cc06b86b3b54e54\">close to the former president\u003c/a>, relying on Trump's high-profile endorsements to propel GOP candidates for Congress. He deserted an earlier provide to become speaker when support from House colleagues drifted. \u003c/p>\u003cdiv class=\"ad-placeholder\" data='autoembed'>\u003c/div>\u003cp>He spent additional than a year pulling with every one other the House GOP's regularly warring factions — from the far-right MAGA to what's left-hand of the additional centrist ranks — to manufacture a mostly agreed-upon agenda.\u003c/p>\u003cp>In traveling to sway condition Pennsylvania, where Biden holds emotional ties from his early childhood, McCarthy sought to work outside \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-biden-donald-trump-presidential-philadelphia-5d0f7c02df093f0d3a3340474a53be4b\">the Democratic president's fiery Labor Day weekend speech\u003c/a>, inside which he warned of rising GOP extremism following the Jan 6, 2021, assault on the Capitol.\u003c/p>\u003cp>McCarthy he with every one other accompanied by fellow lawmakers chose Washington County not Washington, D.C. "Because it's concerning you, it's not concerning us."\u003c/p>\u003cp>Along accompanied by while numerous while five House seats Republicans exist convinced by they tin pick up inside Pennsylvania inside November, the condition has \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-health-new-york-stroke-pennsylvania-1ac53728bd7de09c86ab2da88b94b3be\">one of the most watched Senate races\u003c/a>, in the centre of Democrat John Fetterman with every one other accompanied by Trump-backed Dr. Mehmet Oz. At the top of the ticket is the \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/capitol-siege-2022-midterm-elections-kevin-mccarthy-pennsylvania-congress-ad6f64213929c3df5ff811f652614275\">governor's matchup\u003c/a> in the centre of the GOP's Doug Mastriano, who was seen external outside \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/congress-confirm-joe-biden-78104aea082995bbd7412a6e6cd13818\">the Capitol on Jan. 6\u003c/a>, with every one other accompanied by Democrat Josh Shapiro. \u003c/p>\u003cdiv class=\"ad-placeholder\" data='autoembed'>\u003c/div>\u003cp>"If you are a hard-line populist with every one other accompanied by you really want anger, Kevin's a little frustrating since he's not going to exist angry sufficient for you," Gingrich said. "On the other hand, if what you want is to have your values implemented with every one other accompanied by passed inside the legislation, he is a really good leader with every one other accompanied by organizer."\u003c/p>\u003cp>Gingrich has been employed accompanied by McCarthy with every one other accompanied by his team to skill the way with every one other accompanied by substance of the proposal. \u003c/p>\u003cp>Conservative Republicans protest privately that McCarthy isn't leaning firm sufficient into their priorities, while he tries to appeal to a broader swath of voters with every one other accompanied by clasp the communal gathering together. \u003c/p>\u003cp>Many are eager to launch investigations into the Biden management with every one other accompanied by the president's family, accompanied by some calling for impeachment. Legislatively, some House Republicans want to fulfill the party's commitment to banning abortion, supporting Sen. Lindsey Graham's invoice prohibiting the procedure following 15 weeks of pregnancy.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Former McCarthy competitor Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio who joined the event Friday, vowed to launch investigations including into the COVID-19 crisis if Republicans come first in the House. \u003c/p>\u003cp>Republican Rep. Chip Roy of Texas, a subscriber of the conservative Freedom Caucus, has advocated for withholding confederate funds while leverage for policy priorities, a tactic that engineered past management shutdowns. \u003c/p>\u003cp>"Putting not here like, you know, principles about, 'Well, we'll firm the border.' I mean, OK, nevertheless what are we gonna do concerning it?" Roy said. \u003c/p>\u003cp>It's notable that McCarthy all alone has proposed a scheme if Republicans come first in jurisdiction of the House chamber. In the Senate, Republican leader Mitch McConnell has declined to place forward an agenda, preferring to simply sprint opposed to Biden with every one other accompanied by Democrats inside the midterm election.\u003c/p>\u003cp>"Kevin's done a extremely good position of employment of actuality inside position to become the speaker. And at that hour dated the question is, what do you do accompanied by that? Schlapp said. 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Paperwork for the new committee \u003ca href=\"https://docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/forms/C00825851/1632211/\">was filed\u003c/a> Friday earlier to noon accompanied by the Federal Election Commission.\u003c/p>\u003cp>The buildout comes while Trump, a Republican, is under \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/hub/trump-investigations\">mounting legal pressure on multiple fronts\u003c/a>. The Department of Justice has launched a criminal investigation into how hundreds of \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/florida-donald-trump-mar-a-lago-merrick-garland-government-and-politics-f63c018b600e1539ff3660a896a132d0\">documents accompanied by classified markings\u003c/a> ended up at his Mar-a-Lago club inside Palm Beach, Florida, with every one other accompanied by condition with every one other accompanied by confederate officials are probing his efforts to overturn \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-wins-white-house-ap-fd58df73aa677acb74fce2a69adb71f9\">his 2020 election mislaying to Democrat Joe Biden\u003c/a>. And inside New York, \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-sued-new-york-letitia-james-ec6b3b91b6c8594495ada7d0a2b80a2f\">Attorney General Letitia James filed a lawsuit\u003c/a> this week claiming Trump's namesake firm engaged inside decades of fraudulent bookkeeping, padding his netting price by billions of dollars with every one other accompanied by habitually misleading banks.\u003c/p>\u003cdiv class=\"ad-placeholder\" data='autoembed'>\u003c/div>\u003cp>News of the new excellent PAC too comes less than set of two months earlier to \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/hub/2022-midterm-elections\">the Nov. 8 midterm elections\u003c/a> with every one other accompanied by while numerous Republican candidates have been struggling to lift money opposed to well-funded Democrats.\u003c/p>\u003cdiv id='afs:Card:718185498232' class='hub-peek-embed' content-id='b3cca05169fa51ca5a996df61b3dfcbf'>Hub peek embed (DonaldTrump) - Compressed layout (automatic embed) \u003c/div>\u003cp>"President Trump is committed to lessening America, with every one other accompanied by Make America Great Again, Inc. will build sure that is achieved at the ballot carton inside November with every one other accompanied by beyond," said Trump spokesperson Taylor Budowich, who will work for while the group's administrative director.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Others joining the committee include Republican strategist Chris LaCivita, longtime Trump pollster Tony Fabrizio with every one other accompanied by communications aides Steven Cheung with every one other accompanied by Alex Pfeiffer. \u003c/p>\u003cp>Until now, Trump's Save America leadership PAC, which must abide by a lengthy way stricter fundraising with every one other accompanied by spending limits with every one other accompanied by has \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-russia-ukraine-donald-trump-presidential-campaigns-4ce3a13c3fe27255210adc0c83a80da1\">come under its own scrutiny\u003c/a>, has served while his leader political vehicle. Super PACs tin lift unlimited money with every one other accompanied by pay not here it freely nevertheless are barred from coordinating straight accompanied by campaigns.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Trump officials declined to speak how a a large amount of the notoriously thrifty former president intends to pay not here on his midterm efforts or how a a large amount of he strength try to transfer from his Save America PAC, which ended August accompanied by additional than $90 million. The Associated Press formerly reported that aides had been discussing the possibility of moving at least some of that money to a new or repurposed excellent PAC, though military operation monetary affairs experts are mixed on the legality of such a move.\u003c/p>\u003cdiv class=\"ad-placeholder\" data='autoembed'>\u003c/div>\u003cp>While Trump has been a prolific fundraiser since \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-leaves-white-house-ad718c0048c341d0044c4709fb23c8dd\">leaving office\u003c/a>, vacuuming up small-dollar donations, his existing excellent PAC — Make America Great Again, Again! — has not been a greatest midterm player.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Trump has been under growing pressure to not shut his war mammary gland with every one other accompanied by start spending on midterm races while Republicans have been outraised by Democrats heading into the final military operation stretch. \u003c/p>\u003cp>Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, inside particular, has urged candidates accompanied by Trump's support to inquire him to not shut his wallet. In the meantime, candidates, including some who presented themselves while McConnell antagonists throughout their primaries, have had to grovel to him with every one other accompanied by the Senate Leadership Fund, the excellent PAC he controls, which had $100 million inside reserve at the extremity of June.\u003c/p>\u003cdiv class=\"ad-placeholder\" data='autoembed'>\u003c/div>\u003cp>Trump played a extremely perceptible part throughout the GOP primaries, endorsing hundreds of candidates up with every one other accompanied by down the ballot, from Senate to manager to county commissioner. But some of those contenders are now struggling inside their general election races, putting jurisdiction of the evenly divided Senate up inside the air.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Trump is widely expected to launch another presidential run, nevertheless the timing of an announcement remains unclear. 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An electrocardiogram — a trial that records electrical signals inside the heart to notice heart problems — he had Thursday came not here normal.\u003c/p>\u003cp>"Your scrutiny is healthy, with every one other accompanied by the gore tests are favorable," Kurth wrote. She recommended no indeed medication.\u003c/p>\u003cdiv class=\"ad-placeholder\" data='autoembed'>\u003c/div>\u003cp>The release of the health records comes while Oz is trying to near a gap inside the polls with every one other accompanied by is increasingly making Fetterman's health to work for a centre theme inside his campaign. \u003c/p>\u003cp>Fetterman, 53, has been silent concerning releasing medical records or providing access for reporters to question his doctors, now additional than quartet months following he suffered a blow inside May that has had \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-health-stroke-campaigns-congress-2216e12ec0d031d89d5343cf4f24d42c\">lingering effects on his speech with every one other accompanied by hearing\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\u003cdiv id='afs:Card:921431144683' class='hub-peek-embed' content-id='1ac53728bd7de09c86ab2da88b94b3be'>Hub peek embed (2022Midtermelections) - Compressed layout (automatic embed) \u003c/div>\u003cp>Two editorial boards, of The Washington Post with every one other accompanied by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, have called for Fetterman to release medical records following his \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/1a1ac6f16d94d32e4bc86836a87073be\">refusal to debate Oz additional than once\u003c/a>. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.post-gazette.com/opinion/editorials/2022/09/21/fetterman-oz-should-release-medical-records-senate-race-pennsylvania/stories/202209200110\">Post-Gazette\u003c/a> said that should include cognitive tests with every one other accompanied by making his doctors available to reporters. \u003c/p>\u003cp>It said Oz should release his medical records, excessively — a appeal to which Oz fast agreed.\u003c/p>\u003cp>In a statement, Oz said "voters should have filled transparency when it comes to the health status of candidates running for office." Oz, a heart surgeon, is finest known for "The Dr. Oz Show," which he hosted on daytime TV for 13 years.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Fetterman's military operation on one occasion additional made no indeed commitment Friday to releasing records or providing access to his doctors. \u003c/p>\u003cp>Rather, he attacked Oz inside a statement that revives some of the themes Fetterman has state-of-the-art throughout the military operation — including highlighting \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/ab2b321bd7bf40ebb4c80e49bb19d284\">long-standing criticism\u003c/a> that Oz regularly promoted questionable products with every one other accompanied by medical advice on his show.\u003c/p>\u003cdiv class=\"ad-placeholder\" data='autoembed'>\u003c/div>\u003cp>"In June, I released a letter from my physician where he clearly stated that I am suitable to serve," Fetterman said inside the statement. "Dr. Oz built his entire career by lying to people concerning health. I trust my real doctors over the opinion of a charlatan who played one on TV."\u003c/p>\u003cp>Fetterman has been receiving speech therapy with every one other accompanied by the \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/0c413bfeb7b00ceae5c172c7fa33007e\">letter from his cardiologist\u003c/a> said he will exist fine with every one other accompanied by intelligent to work for inside the Senate if he eats in good physical condition foods, takes prescribed medication with every one other accompanied by exercises.\u003c/p>\u003cp>The contest inside the presidential battleground to replace retiring Republican Sen. Pat Toomey could assist determine jurisdiction of the closely divided Senate, with every one other accompanied by Democrats view it while maybe their finest chance to pick up a seat not here of fair a handful of near races nationally.\u003c/p>\u003cdiv class=\"ad-placeholder\" data='autoembed'>\u003c/div>\u003cp>While it is customary for presidential candidates to release health records, there is no indeed such tradition inside races for the U.S. Senate. Some U.S. senators have, inside the past, released medical records when running for president.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Oz, who has been endorsed by \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/6561a6d248a49c3f7813648de3be2f97\">former President Donald Trump\u003c/a>, too has questioned Fetterman's truthfulness inside disclosing the effects of his stroke.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Fetterman, the state's lieutenant governor, maintains that doctors expect him to build a filled recuperation from the blow with every one other accompanied by that he is fast improving, cognitively unaffected with every one other accompanied by maintaining the healthiest habits of his life. \u003c/p>\u003cp>Fetterman suffered the blow on May 13, quartet days earlier to he easily won his Democratic primary. His victory came hours following he underwent surgery to implant a pacemaker accompanied by a defibrillator. Three weeks following the stroke, Fetterman \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-pennsylvania-government-and-politics-0c413bfeb7b00ceae5c172c7fa33007e\">revealed that he had "almost died"\u003c/a> with every one other accompanied by his cardiologist's letter disclosed he had a solemn with every one other accompanied by potentially fatal heart condition.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Fetterman has been campaigning with every one other accompanied by speaking at condition events, nevertheless speaks haltingly at times, garbles an occasional word with every one other accompanied by struggles to hear into and not here of background noise with every one other accompanied by fast procedure what he's hearing. He not long ago \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-pennsylvania-campaigns-general-harrisburg-1a1ac6f16d94d32e4bc86836a87073be\">agreed to one debate opposed to Oz\u003c/a>, to exist held Oct. 25, though Oz had pressed for more.\u003c/p>\u003cdiv class=\"ad-placeholder\" data='autoembed'>\u003c/div>\u003cp>Fetterman will receive closed-captioning at the debate, nevertheless the candidates are still bickering concerning the terms. Oz is pushing to expand it to 90 minutes, from 60 minutes, to description for some delays from closed captioning.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Publicly, top Democrats, including President Joe Biden, have \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/john-fetterman-pennsylvania-senate-race-7ee6a7ef1e4a37fc8c6ebeaff79c9450\">sought to serene communal gathering nerves\u003c/a> over Fetterman's condition, saying they are optimistic he is competent of serving.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Still, Fetterman has specified reporters restricted access to question him directly, doing fair a few interviews since the stroke, all into and not here of video accompanied by closed-captioning to assist him accompanied by auditory processing.\u003c/p>\u003cp>In a 2016 Senate competition inside Illinois, Democrat Tammy Duckworth released years of medical records when there were questions concerning the health of Republican U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk, who had suffered a blow inside 2012.\u003c/p>\u003cdiv class=\"ad-placeholder\" data='autoembed'>\u003c/div>\u003cp>Kirk was still suffering the effects of the blow quartet years later, and, exist fond of Fetterman, did not provide access to his doctors or medical records. Still, Duckworth said throughout a debate that she idea Kirk was competent of doing the position of employment nevertheless "the difficulty is he's not doing it."\u003c/p>\u003cp>Late inside the race, Kirk's military operation released a one-page letter from a treating physician that said the senator had made a "full cognitive recovery" while still speaking haltingly, dealing accompanied by restricted use of his left-hand lower limb with every one other accompanied by the inability to use his left-hand arm, the Chicago Tribune reported at the time.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Kirk ended up losing his reelection bid.\u003c/p>\u003cp>___\u003c/p>\u003cp>Associated Press medical author Lauran Neergaard contributed to this report. 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(AP) — In competitive races across the U.S., Republican candidates are distancing themselves from their party's most contentious policies with every one other accompanied by people — namely, abortion with every one other accompanied by former Pr...","isTpContent":false,"socialEmbeds":[],"isPrContent":false,"storyHTML":"\u003cp>RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — In competitive races across the U.S., Republican candidates are distancing themselves from their party's most contentious policies with every one other accompanied by people — namely, abortion with every one other accompanied by former President Donald Trump — while Election Day approaches.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Not \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-donald-trump-senate-elections-north-carolina-elections-7110a31accb16a56f104cd5ceb3cb364\">Ted Budd\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\u003cp>The North Carolina GOP Senate nominee is leaning into support for abortion restrictions with every one other accompanied by amity accompanied by the former Republican president while Democrats fight for an elusive victory inside the Southern sway state. \u003c/p>\u003cp>Democratic optimism remains tempered specified the state's recent scarlet tilt, nevertheless Democratic officials exist convinced by Budd, a low-profile congressman who emerged while the GOP's Senate nominee \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-donald-trump-north-carolina-raleigh-congress-db146ddf43d6825b8695742d9c05baf9\">largely since of Trump's backing\u003c/a>, gives them a real chance at flipping a seat — with every one other accompanied by holding the stability of ability inside Washington — this fall.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Disregarding his critics, Budd appeared alongside Trump at a rally inside Wilmington Friday night, where the former president praised the candidate while "a conservative, America First all-star inside Congress" with every one other accompanied by urged his supporters to turn not here to vote. Budd, inside turn, thanked Trump for returning to the state.\u003c/p>\u003cdiv class=\"ad-placeholder\" data='autoembed'>\u003c/div>\u003cp>The Budd military operation was eager to greeting Trump when the former president's team called, according to counsellor Jonathan Felts.\u003c/p>\u003cdiv id='afs:Card:575522641639' class='hub-peek-embed' content-id='1dc05f0ab2ac0709274aa543bf6e5476'>Hub peek embed (Abortion) - Compressed layout (automatic embed) \u003c/div>\u003cp>"Trump won North Carolina twice, with every one other accompanied by an in-person rally is helpful,\" Felts said, suggesting Trump would assist operate turnout, mainly "with unaffiliated and/or undecided voters worried concerning the economy."\u003c/p>\u003cp>Others aren't so sure. \u003c/p>\u003cp>"The additional Trump emerges, the additional Trump is inside the news, the better for Democrats," said David Holian, a political science professor at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Indeed, Trump remains overwhelmingly well liked accompanied by Republican voters nevertheless is less appealing to the moderates with every one other accompanied by \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-biden-us-supreme-court-wisconsin-donald-trump-e59dbae8476ec6f15839b3f06769895c\">independents who regularly resolve swing-state elections.\u003c/a> Trump's national favorable ratings have been violently flat with, or worse than, President Joe Biden's inside recent weeks. \u003c/p>\u003cp>Still, some North Carolina Democrats are a lengthy way from optimistic inside a condition where they have suffered sore losses inside recent years.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Democratic skepticism comes in malice of the evident ability of their Senate nominee, \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/race-and-ethnicity-senate-elections-richard-burr-north-carolina-general-elections-97e71a5ba17a86f82e693c7806bb6bb8\">former condition Supreme Court Chief Justice Cheri Beasley,\u003c/a> who has a decided fundraising advantage, a record of outperforming other Democrats inside statewide elections with every one other accompanied by a average message. She would exist the state's earliest Black senator if elected. \u003c/p>\u003cdiv class=\"ad-placeholder\" data='autoembed'>\u003c/div>\u003cp>Yet Beasley is too running opposed to negative perceptions of her party. \u003c/p>\u003cp>Trump's rise has fueled a growing sensory power among some voters inside North Carolina, down accompanied by those inside numerous other states, that the national Democratic Party has lost be in touch accompanied by the done every one day struggles of the employed class with every one other accompanied by similar voting blocs. The Democratic-controlled Congress' focus on climate change, for example, hasn't helped stimulate voters exist fond of Talmage Layton, a 74-year-old farmer from Durham.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Layton said he doesn't know whether a North Carolina Democrat tin build a difference on Capitol Hill inside lowering gasoline prices or pushing spine opposed to climate alter policies that other Democrats have embraced.\u003c/p>\u003cdiv class=\"ad-placeholder\" data='autoembed'>\u003c/div>\u003cp>"That's not anything opposed to Cheri Beasley,\" Layton said following a recent gathering accompanied by Beasley. \"I'm a registered Democrat, with every one other accompanied by I would have no indeed difficulty voting for a Democrat. But they've got to believe concerning the little guy here."\u003c/p>\u003cp>Not lengthy ago, it looked while if the Democratic Party was poised to lay clasp of over North Carolina politics. \u003c/p>\u003cp>In 2008, Obama carried the state, becoming the earliest Democrat to do so since 1976, with every one other accompanied by Democrat Kay Hagan upset GOP Sen. Elizabeth Dole. Political experts predicted the Democratic Party would step to dominance while a consequence of increasing urbanization with every one other accompanied by out-of-state liberals moving inside for tech jobs inside the Raleigh-Durham with every one other accompanied by Charlotte regions.\u003c/p>\u003cp>But Republicans took over the condition legislature for the earliest hour dated inside over 140 years following the 2010 election with every one other accompanied by retained it gratitude to support from exurban with every one other accompanied by rural voters with every one other accompanied by favorably drawn districts. A decade later, \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/election-2020-joe-biden-donald-trump-north-carolina-coronavirus-pandemic-bebdcff679f91449d90e1be67d539457\">Trump became a two-time North Carolina winner,\u003c/a> though he won the 2020 election by fair 1 percentage point. \u003c/p>\u003cdiv class=\"ad-placeholder\" data='autoembed'>\u003c/div>\u003cp>While Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper managed to come first in reelection inside 2020, Beasley was one of the party's casualties. She lost a provide to carry on accompanied by to exist leader justice to a Republican competitor \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/state-elections-north-carolina-elections-courts-voting-f306377fbc13ff2675ee33b897750de2\">by fair 401 votes.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003cp>Her near-miss turned her into a rising candidate inside the contest to succeed retiring GOP Sen. Richard Burr.\u003c/p>\u003cp>In one sign of strength, Beasley has consistently raised additional money than Budd. And she appears to exist generating momentum by seizing on abortion to energize women with every one other accompanied by independents, relying on the same playbook Democrats have used elsewhere. \u003c/p>\u003cp>Budd, meanwhile, has been outspoken inside his opposition to abortion. He co-sponsored a House report of a national 15-week abortion ban introduced by Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham that flat Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell distanced himself from.\u003c/p>\u003cp>"My competitor has been inside Congress for sextet years, with every one other accompanied by every one chance he's had to ballot for North Carolina, he's voted opposed to us," Beasley charged following gathering accompanied by farmers at a manufacture market inside Durham earlier to Graham's invoice introduction. \u003c/p>\u003cdiv class=\"ad-placeholder\" data='autoembed'>\u003c/div>\u003cp>Meanwhile, Republicans inside competitive elections inside states exist fond of Iowa, Minnesota, Nevada with every one other accompanied by Arizona have distanced themselves from their rigid anti-abortion stances inside recent weeks. Others have stripped their websites of references to Trump or his favorite talking points.\u003c/p>\u003cp>In Virginia, a Republican House candidate removed a Trump allude to of from her Twitter bio. In New Hampshire, Republican Senate nominee Don Bolduc abruptly reversed himself last week when asked concerning Trump's incorrect claims that the 2020 election was stolen. After spending a a large amount of of the last year echoing Trump's lies, Bolduc told Fox News he had done additional research with every one other accompanied by concluded, "The election was not stolen."\u003c/p>\u003cp>Meanwhile, Budd's military operation refused this week to speak whether he would receive the 2022 election results, having by that hour dated voted to chunk certification of the 2020 election. \u003c/p>\u003cp>Such positions will almost certainly appeal to Trump's base, nevertheless political operatives speak Budd needs sizable support from moderate, self-governing voters to exist successful. Unaffiliated voters this year surpassed Democrats to become the largest bloc of registered voters inside the state. \u003c/p>\u003cp>"Regardless of what your trust background is, you're dealing accompanied by skyrocketing vitality prices. You're dealing accompanied by high grocery costs. You're dealing accompanied by high crime. You're dealing accompanied by monetary uncertainty," Budd said following speaking to pastors not long ago inside Greenville. "And so I want to build existence better for all North Carolinians with every one other accompanied by people inside our country by the things that I support."\u003c/p>\u003cp>As Budd has struggled to retain step accompanied by Beasley's fundraising, external outside groups have go nearer to his aid.\u003c/p>\u003cp>The McConnell-aligned Senate Leadership Fund with every one other accompanied by the National Republican Senatorial Committee have spent $17.3 million combined on advertising opposing Beasley, according to Federal Election Commission filings. The Senate Majority PAC, which supports Democratic candidates, with every one other accompanied by the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee have spent near to $4 million inside North Carolina while investing a lengthy way additional inside high-profile contests inside states exist fond of Pennsylvania with every one other accompanied by Arizona. \u003c/p>\u003cp>"We're committed to making sure voters carry on accompanied by seeing with every one other accompanied by hearing the truth concerning Ted Budd," Senate Majority PAC spokesperson Veronica Yoo said. \u003c/p>\u003cp>An upper limb of the pro-abortion-rights EMILY's List announced this month spending $2.7 million to find fault with Budd on abortion while well. \u003c/p>\u003cp>During a recent place an extremity to at Perkins Orchard inside Durham, Beasley chatted accompanied by farmers who gathered around picnic tables with every one other accompanied by near fresh pumpkins for sale. 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href=\"https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-technology-colorado-donald-trump-voting-95b862c0cb66aac446a213aace504776\">prompted calls\u003c/a> to ditch the machines altogether.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Details of the unauthorized access of sensitive voting apparatus inside Coffee County, Georgia, became condition last month when documents with every one other accompanied by emails revealed the involvement of high-profile Trump supporters. That's too when it \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-voting-donald-trump-georgia-6c5483c82b47cf402136b39e72326309\">caught the attention\u003c/a> of an Atlanta-based prosecutor who is leading a separate investigation of Trump's efforts to unfasten his mislaying inside the state.\u003c/p>\u003cdiv class=\"ad-placeholder\" data='autoembed'>\u003c/div>\u003cp>Since then, revelations concerning what happened inside the county of 43,000 people have raised questions concerning whether the Dominion Voting Systems machines used inside Georgia \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-technology-colorado-donald-trump-voting-95b862c0cb66aac446a213aace504776\">have been compromised\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\u003cp>The condition disclosure of the breach began accompanied by a rambling phone call from an Atlanta-area bail bondsman to the head of an election safety advocacy category associated accompanied by inside a long-running legal action targeting the state's voting machines.\u003c/p>\u003cdiv id='afs:Card:921431144683' class='hub-peek-embed' content-id='6a1324cc6cf45c95ca086a5c81617b15'>Hub peek embed (2022Midtermelections) - Compressed layout (automatic embed) \u003c/div>\u003cp>According to a recording filed inside court of rules and regulations earlier this year, the bail bondsman said he'd chartered a jet with every one other accompanied by was accompanied by a computer forensics team at the Coffee County elections office when they "imaged every one firm operate of every one small portion of equipment."\u003c/p>\u003cp>That happened on Jan. 7, 2021, a day following the brutal insurrection at the U.S. Capitol with every one other accompanied by set of two days following a runoff election inside which Democrats swept both of Georgia's U.S. Senate seats.\u003c/p>\u003cp>The trip to Coffee County, concerning 200 miles south of Atlanta, to copy facts with every one other accompanied by software from elections apparatus was directed by \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/election-2020-joe-biden-donald-trump-georgia-lawsuits-0ed38af7f94b596308475aa8b28c871c\">attorney Sidney Powell\u003c/a> with every one other accompanied by other Trump allies, according to deposition testimony with every one other accompanied by documents produced inside response to subpoenas.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Later that month, safety camera footage shows, set of two men who have participated inside efforts to question the results of the 2020 election inside some states spent days going inside with every one other accompanied by not here of the Coffee County elections office.\u003c/p>\u003cdiv class=\"ad-placeholder\" data='autoembed'>\u003c/div>\u003cp>The footage too shows local election with every one other accompanied by Republican Party officials welcoming the visitors with every one other accompanied by allowing them access to the election equipment. The video \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-technology-voting-lawsuits-378bdd712f73ebee18e79cbbceb0d84d\">seems to contradict\u003c/a> statements some of the officials made concerning their evident involvement.\u003c/p>\u003cp>The new details has made Coffee County, where Trump won almost 70% of the ballot set of two years ago, a focal point of concerns over the safety of voting machines. While there is no indeed proof of widespread problems accompanied by voting apparatus inside 2020, some Trump supporters have \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-voting-presidential-biden-cabinet-b4a3422d188fdd921d8e6f38f53ea0d0\">spread incorrect information\u003c/a> concerning machines with every one other accompanied by the election outcome.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Election safety experts with every one other accompanied by activists terror condition election officials haven't acted fast sufficient inside the face of what they see while a real threat.\u003c/p>\u003cp>The copying of the software with every one other accompanied by its availability for download means potential bad actors could build exact copies of the Dominion system to trial different types of attacks, said University of California, Berkeley computer researcher Philip Stark, an expert observer for the plaintiffs inside the voting machines lawsuit.\u003c/p>\u003cdiv class=\"ad-placeholder\" data='autoembed'>\u003c/div>\u003cp>"This is exist fond of edge robbers having an exact replica of the vault that they're trying to shatter into," he said.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Stark said the risks could exist minimized by using hand-marked paper ballots with every one other accompanied by rigorous audits. Dominion says its apparatus remains secure.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Marilyn Marks, administrative director of the Coalition for Good Governance, the category that sued over the state's voting machines, said the condition has been slow to investigate. She was on the receiving extremity of the phone call from the bail bondsman.\u003c/p>\u003cp>The state, she said, has been "repeatedly looking the other way when faced accompanied by flashing scarlet lights of solemn voting system safety problems."\u003c/p>\u003cp>State officials speak they're optimistic the election system is safe. All Coffee County election apparatus that wasn't by that hour dated replaced \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-voting-donald-trump-georgia-1e9ede98e9feb4b3ad7435a2b2449841\">will exist swapped out\u003c/a> earlier to early voting begins following month, the secretary of state's office said Friday.\u003c/p>\u003cdiv class=\"ad-placeholder\" data='autoembed'>\u003c/div>\u003cp>State officials too noted they were deluged by incorrect claims following the 2020 election.\u003c/p>\u003cp>"In retrospect, you tin say, well what concerning this, this with every one other accompanied by this," said Gabriel Sterling, a top official inside the Georgia secretary of state's office. "In real time, no, there was no indeed source to believe that."\u003c/p>\u003cp>In late January 2021, a few weeks following the computer forensics team visited, safety video shows a secretary of state's office inspector arriving at the Coffee County elections office. He with every one other accompanied by the elections supervisor stroll into the space that houses the election management system server. Seconds later, Jeff Lenberg, who has been identified by Michigan authorities while actuality small portion of an attempt to gain access to voting machines there, is seen walking not here of that room.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Asked whether Lenberg's presence inside the space accompanied by sensitive election apparatus raised concerns for the investigator, secretary of state's office spokesperson Mike Hassinger said the inspector was looking into an unrelated matter with every one other accompanied by didn't know who Lenberg was.\u003c/p>\u003cdiv class=\"ad-placeholder\" data='autoembed'>\u003c/div>\u003cp>Security video too showed another man, Doug Logan, at the office inside mid-January. Logan founded a firm called Cyber Ninjas, which led a \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-elections-arizona-phoenix-conspiracy-theories-d38321441bcd6cea58421f6871b4f74e\">discredited review\u003c/a> of the 2020 election inside Maricopa County, Arizona. In May 2021, Coffee County's new elections supervisor raised concerns accompanied by the secretary of state's office following finding Logan's work cardboard by a computer. The election supervisor's concerns were referred to an investigator, nevertheless he testified that no indeed one at some time contacted him.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Hassinger said the secretary of state's office responds to allegations when they are raised nevertheless that "information concerning unauthorized access to Coffee County's election apparatus has been kept hidden" by local officials with every one other accompanied by others.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Much of what is known was uncovered into and not here of documents, safety camera video with every one other accompanied by depositions produced inside response to subpoenas inside the legal action filed by individual voters with every one other accompanied by the election safety advocacy group. The outfit alleges Georgia's touchscreen voting machines are not firm with every one other accompanied by seeks to strength the condition to use hand-marked paper ballots instead.\u003c/p>\u003cp>The not long ago produced proof of a breach wasn't the earliest sign of problems inside Coffee County, which caused headaches for condition election officials inside the hectic weeks following the 2020 election. It's probable that turmoil helped opened the door for Trump's allies.\u003c/p>\u003cp>In early December 2020, the county elections board declined to certify the results of a machine recount requested by Trump, saying the election system had produced inaccurate results. A video posted online days subsequent showed the former county elections supervisor saying the elections software could exist manipulated; while she spoke, the password to the county election management system server was perceptible on a note stuck to her computer.\u003c/p>\u003cp>At the extremity of December, Cathy Latham, the Coffee County Republican Party chair who too was a fake elector for Trump, appeared at a condition legislative committee hearing with every one other accompanied by made further claims that the voting machines were unreliable.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Within days of that hearing, Latham said, she was contacted by Scott Hall, the bail bondsman, who had been a Republican observer throughout an election recount. Latham testified inside a deposition that Hall asked her to fasten him accompanied by the Coffee County elections supervisor (who subsequent was accused of falsifying timesheets with every one other accompanied by forced to resign).\u003c/p>\u003cp>A few days later, on Jan. 7, Hall met accompanied by a computer forensics team from facts solutions firm SullivanStrickler at the Coffee County elections office. The team copied the facts with every one other accompanied by software on the election management system server with every one other accompanied by other voting system components, a firm administrative said inside a deposition. The firm said it believed its clients had the obligatory permission.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Invoices show the facts firm billed Powell $26,000 for the day's work.\u003c/p>\u003cp>"Everything went smoothly yesterday accompanied by the Coffee County collection," the firm's leader operating officer wrote to Powell inside an email. 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