30 Dec 2024 12:55 pm
Majik » 47 minutes ago » wrote: ↑ Pretty Simple: Maricopa County is either lying (they claim they are not) or they are and the State of Arizona elections have been completely compromised ...
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She will also pay a $6,000 fine as well as $2,700 in restitution to the state. On Aug. 14, a grand jury formally charged Powell with seven felony charges in which the 19 defendants were each charged with violating Georgia’s RICO Act (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act).Prosecutors said that by successfully completing all terms of her probation, Powell’s conviction of six counts of misdemeanor conspiracy to commit intentional interference with election duties will be sealed from her criminal record.Emory University Law professor Fred Smith Jr. said Powell’s guilty plea wasn’t surprising since most defendants in state criminal court reach plea agreements with prosecutors.As part of her plea Powell also provide prosecutors with a recorded proffer interview in which she describes her involvement in the case.“If she says something inconsistent while testifying, (prosecutors) will be able to use that video to undermine her credibility,” Smith said.On Wednesday, the New York Times reported that Chesebro acknowledged Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election were based on a political agenda, a revelation that could undercut Chesebro’s claims in the Fulton case that Trump lawyers were only focused on legal advice.Voting breach takes front stagePowell admitted Thursday that she hired forensic computer experts to compromise voting software and other confidential voter information from the Coffee County elections office in early 2021. She also agreed that prosecutors would have proven during trial that Powell, along with several co-conspirators, plotted with Coffee County elections director Misty Hampton to illegally access election machines by tampering with electronic ballot markers, voting software and other equipment.In the weeks before Powell pleaded guilty, her attorney Bill Rafferty repeatedly argued that she had no direct involvement in setting up the visits to the Coffee elections office.One of Powell’s co-defendants, Scott Hall, a bail bondsman from Atlanta, entered a plea of guilty on Sept. 29 and received five years probation and $5,000 fine for misdemeanor charges related to illegally accessing voting equipment in Coffee County.Powell is also being investigated by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation for her role in hacking into Coffee County’s election system.The breach was uncovered last year by the plaintiffs in a longstanding lawsuit challenging the security of the state’s electronic voting system. Earlier this month, the GBI discovered more than 15,000 emails and documents from Hampton’s desktop computer that the attorneys for the Coffee County Board of Elections had claimed were lost.Hampton has pleaded not guilty to multiple charges in the Fulton racketeering case.This story was originally published by the Georgia Recorder, a sister publication of the Arizona Mirror and a member of the States Newsroom network of local news organizations.YOU MAKE OUR WORK POSSIBLE.
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