In Georgia, the ‘Biggest Election Breach’ in History Has Gone Uninvestigated

In 2020, a group of technicians accessed government election servers and voting machines. The small town where it happened is still asking for answers.

The voting machine room is entered at the Bartow County Election office.

The voting machine room is entered at the Bartow County Election office, Thursday, Jan. 25, 2024, in Cartersville, Ga. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart) Mike Stewart/AP

It’s been more than three years since a team of Republican officials engaged in a covert operation to illegally access a rural Georgia county’s electronic elections system and appear to have made off with sensitive computer information — after briefing Donald Trump on aspects of that plan in the White House.

Yet no one — not the feds, not state elections officials, not even local law enforcement — has ascertained exactly what happened in Coffee County, Georgia, a rural patch of the politically deep red American South.

This Trump election scandal wasn’t a break-in: The head of the local Republican Party allowed a group of technicians into the one-story, windowless county elections office where they accessed government election servers and voting machines.