Sidney Powell’s involvement in the plot to overturn the 2020 election—and a possible roadmap as to why she flipped and pleaded guilty–are detailed in a new, 400-page report.
footed the bill over an effort to access and copy data from a Georgia county’s election systems in the hopes of somehow proving election fraud against, lays out how Powell was contractually obligated to ensure that the work by the data-services firm she hired to carry out the breach was legal—which, of course, it wasn’t. Much of the report itself, according to, uses information provided by the Coalition for Good Governance, an elections-watchdog group that had earlier obtained discovery rights.
“That’s it,” Rafferty said. “The whole case is about whether or not that visit was authorized and what, if any, role she had in it, which is very little, if none.”, “complicates” Rafferty’s argument, making it clear that Powell underwrote the first part of the plot, which also took place across more than a single day. On Jan. 7, employees of the firm, SullivanStrickler, were caught on surveillance video being welcomed into the county elections office by a local GOP official, Cathy Latham.
SullivanStrickler went to Coffee County on the invitation of another sympathetic local official, Misty Hampton, the county’s former elections supervisor and another co-defendant in the Fulton County case. “Per the Ga law I do not see any problem assisting you with anything yall need accordance to Ga. law,” she wrote in a Dec. 31 message to a lawyer representing Giuliani and Latham, who were at that point trying to prove the existence of supposed voting machine issues to the Georgia legislature.
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