fake electors scheme there. secretary benson, first of all, what do you make of this video showing two operatives working with an attorney for the former president going into this georgia county s election office the very same day the voting system there was breached? i think it underscores both the severity of the attempts to intervene with our elections and also the coordination of it. the fact that this was not an isolated incident, and it occurred in many other states. we know that are attempts in michigan that have been investigated. we know it was connected to attempts to submit fake electors, all designed to try to undermine the will of the people not just? a few states but really nationally. also it shows it s not isolated, we shouldn t assume, to 2020. that s our focus now. there s an ongoing investigation in michigan into voting machine tampering. the attorney general has requested a special prosecutor to look into it. according to cnn s reporting, evidence has emerged li
to the voting symptoms in ant rim county, michigan, to this breach in georgia county. do you believe the evidence will show that this was a coordinated plot? yes, absolutely. i mean what we have seen really over the last several years is a complete evidence, ongoing evidence of coordination among really several states, not just michigan and georgia, but also arizona, pennsylvania, wisconsin, and it s what we lived, frankly, in 2020. we saw many things being attempted in michigan, being attempted in other states as well as the same time. now, when people say there s a breach of a voting system, what does that mean? does it mean someone breaking into it? it means it s potentially that. someone has gained access to the machine, and there are various things someone can do once that happens. now, in michigan, anyone who is not authorized to have access to machines cannot have access to machines regardless of what they do once they have that access. and what it also causes is
republican operative. we ve gotten no response from him today. kathy leatham, the woman who opened the door in the video, has been connected to the plan to access these elections offices through emails and texts documented in a civil case. this is what her attorney told us. ms. leatham has not acted improperly or illegally. ms. leatham did not authorize or participate in any ballot scanning efforts, computer imaging, or any similar activity. the i.t. specialist firm says it has no reason to believe the lawyers that hired them would direct them to do anything wrong, but there seems no doubt, anderson, this county s machines were compromised and ballots were scanned on behest on these operatives working for trump. we know there are investigations into improper access of voting machines in multiple other states. are they connected? reporter: the players definitely overlap. a similar breach happened in michigan. it s connected to what happened in georgia. take a look at this video we w
access to the voting systems to the speech in georgia county. to believe the evidence will show this was a coordinated plot ? yes. absolutely. what we ve seen really over the last couple of years is a complete evidence, ongoing evidence, of coordination among really several states, not just michigan and georgia but also areas are now, pennsylvania, wisconsin, and it s what we lived, frankly, in 2020. we saw many things being attempted in michigan, being attempted in other states as well at the same time. when people say there is a breach of a voting system, what
now. it s cathy lathem, the woman there. she s the former chairwoman of the coffee county gop. she s the woman already under investigation for posing as one of those fake electors who signed documents declaring donald trump the winner of the 2020 election. she is seen here escorting a team of pro-trump operatives into this county elections office, including an i.t. specialist who was working with trump s lawyer, sydney powell. this all happened on the same day the voting systems in that office were illegally breached. this is january 7th, 2021. the day after the attack on the u.s. capitol. text messages, emails, and witness testimony in a civil lawsuit against georgia elections officials have connected lathem, that woman, to the plan to give that group access to the elections office. about a week before this breach of the voting machine, lathem herself testified before the skr