Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel announced Wednesday that a former township official and her attorney will be indicted in Michigan for an alleged voter data breach related to the 2020 election.
Former Adams Township Clerk Stephanie Scott and her personal attorney Stephanie Lambert allowed “unauthorized computer examiner access to voter data, including non-public voter information related to the 2020 general election,” Nessel said. his office made the claim in a news release.
Scott faces six charges (five felonies and one misdemeanor), including concealing or withholding voting machines and using a computer in a crime. Lambert is charged with three felonies, including computer crimes. It is unclear how they petitioned.
Scott, 52, and Lambert, 42, have been promoting conspiracy theories about the results of Michigan’s 2020 presidential election.
“Ensuring the security and integrity of elections is the cornerstone of democracy,” Nessel said in a statement.
“It is in the essence of the democratic process that elected officials and their agents use their positions to promote baseless conspiracies, blatantly disregard voter privacy, and break the law in the process. It undermines,” she continued. We must be held accountable for our reckless actions. ”
Lambert’s attorney, Daniel Hartman, said in a statement to The Associated Press that Lambert did not violate any laws and “continues his efforts to bring transparency to the public’s election data, processes and procedures.” Lambert did not immediately respond to NBC News’ request for comment.
Lambert is accused of illegally transmitting data from the town’s 2020 General Election Electronic Poll Book under Scott’s direction.
According to the news release, Scott “deliberately ignored numerous instructions” to turn over the vote tabulation machines to “certified vendors for maintenance and testing.” Michigan State Police eventually seized the tabulation machine as part of a search warrant.
Both Lambert and Scott have a history of refusing to vote. Lambert tried to file a lawsuit to overturn President Joe Biden’s victory in Michigan’s 2020 election. Scott, who has also promoted election-related conspiracy theories, was barred from running in a local election in the city in 2021 after the Michigan Department of Elections failed to take precautions to ensure voting security. . She ultimately lost office in a recall election last year.
Lambert was arrested in March after a sanctions hearing on charges that he disseminated classified emails from Dominion Voting Systems.
