Mich. brings charges in alleged voter data breach
DETROIT – Criminal charges related to the 2020 election continue to mount, with the latest announced by Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel this week against a pro-Trump lawyer and a former township clerk accused of allowing unauthorized access to voter data.
Former Adams Township Clerk Stephanie Scott allegedly ignored instructions from the Michigan Secretary of State’s office to submit a voting tabulator for maintenance. Under Scott’s direction, attorney Stefanie Lambert allegedly shared 2020 election data from the township’s poll book. And together the pair allegedly gave an unauthorized computer examiner access to 2020 election data, according to Nessel’s office.
Almost a year after the 2020 presidential election, the state’s Bureau of Elections ordered Scott to stop administering elections after the clerk prevented maintenance on voting equipment, according to a news release from the Secretary of State’s Office. Shortly after the order, Michigan State Police recovered election equipment from Adams Township that had gone missing, prompting an investigation into possible tampering with the equipment.
Michigan State Police referred the matter to Nessel’s office following its own investigation, according to the news release from the Attorney General’s Office announcing the charges against Lambert and Scott.