New front in GOP election ‘investigation’ draws challenges | Technology

On Dec. 10, the investigating committee chair, Sen. Cris Dush, R-Jefferson, sent a letter requesting the “digital data” from the election computers and hardware used in the 2020 election by Fulton County.

Denver-based Dominion Voting Systems warned Fulton County that granting the Senate Republicans' contractor access to its equipment to get the digital data violates their contract.

But Dominion — whose voting equipment has been at the center of some of the most feverish conspiracy theories about last year's presidential election — said Fulton County has a backup copy of the data that it could simply provide without granting access to Dominion's equipment.

However, a lawyer representing Fulton County, Tom King, said in an interview Saturday that digital election data is not only what Dush wants.

Rather, Dush wants the Senate Republicans’ contractor, Envoy Sage, to conduct a “forensic investigation” to determine if Dominion’s equipment used there was the same equipment as was certified by the state of Pennsylvania for use in last year’s election, King said.

“I think people simply want to know whether what was used in Fulton County was in fact the equipment that was certified for Dominion to supply in Pennsylvania or whether it wasn’t," King said. “Whether it was or wasn’t is not clear to us at this point.”