Georgia election officials probe claims of Bibb County voting machine security breach

A video surveillance image taken on Jan. 7, 2021, shows former Coffee County Republican Party chair Cathy Latham, bottom right, welcoming forensic computer analysts with Atlanta-based Sullivan Strickler to the county elections office. (Screenshot from Coffee County video)

An election security analyst with ties to an alleged breach of the Coffee County voting system is now being investigated by the Georgia secretary of state’s office for recently claiming that he also examined voting equipment in Macon-Bibb County.

According to March 11 sworn testimony filed with the U.S. Supreme Court, forensic analyst Benjamin Cotton mentions Bibb County among the several locations across the nation where he forensically examined components of the Dominion Voting System that have been used in statewide elections in Georgia since 2020. 

The electronic voting systems in Georgia and several other battleground states have become the target of right-wing activists who sought to gather evidence that compromised Dominion’s ballot tabulators, servers and touchscreen ballot marking devices resulted in the 2020 presidential election being stolen from Donald Trump.