A Republican Party official in Georgia told a computer forensics team to copy components of the voting system at a rural elections office two months after the 2020 election and spent almost all day there.
The filing late Monday is part of a broader lawsuit challenging the security of the state's voting machines that has been drawn into a separate investigation of Donald Trump's efforts to overturn his loss in Georgia. The day after a violent attack on the U.S. Capitol by Trump supporters, there was an apparent security breech.
The computer forensics team arrived at the Coffee County elections office and was welcomed by the chair of the Republican Party. She instructed the team to copy everything in the voting system. The document states that the video directly refutes Latham's testimony.
Latham's attorneys tried to quash subpoenas for her personal electronic devices.
Robert Cheeley did not reply to the email. His client doesn't remember all the details of that day. He said she has not acted illegally or improper in any election.
She said in a deposition that she moved to Texas over the summer. She was the state party caucus chair for more than 125 of Georgia's smaller counties. Latham was one of 16 Georgia Republicans who signed a certificate in December 2020 that stated that Trump had won the state and that they were the state's "duly elected and qualified" electors.
In Georgia, Trump lost to Joe Biden. A phone call he made to the Georgia secretary of state suggested he could get enough votes to win the election.
Latham and the other fake electors have been warned by the Fulton County District Attorney that they could be charged with a crime.
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation was asked to investigate the copying of data from Coffee County's election system by the Georgia Secretary of State's office. Since the election, there have been several suspected breeches of voting system data tied to Trump allies.
According to documents produced in response to subpoenas, Sidney Powell and other Trump allies arranged for the copying of the election equipment in Coffee County, which is home to 43,000 people and voted overwhelmingly for Trump.
Latham's data likely will reveal additional details about the work performed and information obtained in the breach, what was done with the compromised software and data, and the people involved in planning and orchestrating the breach, which puts voters and future elections at enormous risk.
There is an exhibit attached to the Monday filing that compares quotes from Latham's deposition with security camera footage that appears to contradict her statements.
Latham stopped by the election office while she was at her job as a teacher. The video image shows her arriving at 11:37 a.m., but time stamps on other images show her there for most of the day. She said she didn't see a lot of people, but the video shows otherwise.
The fight over Latham's personal electronic devices was originally filed by individual voters and the Coalition for Good Governance. Georgia wants to replace its voting machines with hand-marked paper ballots because they aren't secure.
The Monday filing states that Latham failed to comply with a previous subpoena. It would like to have a third party make a forensic copy of her devices.
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