EX-CLERK, LAWYER CHARGED IN ALLEGED VOTER DATA BREACH

Michigan's attorney general announced charges Wednesday against a former township clerk and a lawyer who had supported attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, alleging they accessed voting systems without authorization in search of fraud.

Former Adams Township clerk Stephanie Scott, a Republican, and her attorney, Stefanie Lambert, were charged with multiple felonies, including unauthorized access to a computer and using a computer to commit a crime.

“When elected officials and their proxies use their positions to promote baseless conspiracies, show blatant disregard for voter privacy, and break the law in the process, it undermines the very essence of the democratic process,” Attorney General Dana Nessel said in a statement.

The charges are the latest to be brought against people in multiple states who had been entrusted to ensure the security of election systems but instead allowed others to breach them in a futile search for evidence of widespread fraud in the 2020 presidential election.

Scott allegedly ignored instructions from the Michigan secretary of state to turn over her township's voting tabulator to an authorized vendor and withheld the tabulator until it was seized by Michigan State Police. The statement also alleged that, under the direction of Scott, Lambert transmitted data from the township's poll book related to the 2020 election.

Lambert's attorney said his client “remains steadfast in her efforts to bring transparency to the people's election data, processes and procedures.”