Carr: State still probing election software breach in Coffee County

Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr said this past week that the state’s investigation into a breach in Coffee County, where tech experts and supporters of Donald Trump copied Georgia’s election software, is still ongoing.

The GBI completed its Coffee County investigation in August, but the attorney general’s office hasn’t pursued prosecutions. Fulton County did, however, as part of its larger investigation into election interference that led to an indictment against Trump and 18 co-defendants, including four with ties to the Coffee County case. Two have since pleaded guilty: attorney Sidney Powell and bail bondsman Scott Hall.

“I’m not going to get into the specifics of it,” Carr said on the “Politically Georgia” podcast, “but let me just say this: Any time a prosecutor is given a case from investigators, that doesn’t necessarily mean the case is over and it doesn’t need further investigation or further analysis.”

Several civil rights leaders sent a letter to the FBI and the Department of Justice seeking an investigation about the theft of election data after the 2020 election not only in Coffee County but also in Arizona and Michigan as a “multi-state scheme by allies and attorneys of Donald Trump.”

“The theft of Georgia’s voting system software could enable election subversion, threaten election integrity and introduce new threats to disenfranchise voters in future elections,” the letter states.

The letter was signed by Cliff Albright of Black Voters Matter, Tabitha Paulk of the NAACP of Coffee County, Kathryn Grant of Safe to Thrive, former Douglas City Councilwoman Olivia Coley-Pearson and Gaines Chapel AME Pastor Bruce Francis.