Sitting at a back table at Ole Times restaurant, Larry Nesmith was putting a cold drink to his lips when his phone jangled. It was his wife calling. They live out near the high school and kids in their trucks can get a little excitable after school. She said one smacked a fence, then sped off. Blue lights from the sheriff’s car zipped by moments later.
“That’s the kind of news we’re used to, a kid in a truck,” said Nesmith, a Democrat, and a community activist who has run for local office. “This other stuff? Not used to that around here.”
“This other stuff” was the breach of the Coffee County Elections and Registrations office Jan. 7, 2021. Cathy Latham, the chair of the Coffee County Republican party, Misty Hampton, the county elections supervisor, and Eric Chaney, a member of the county elections board, were involved in opening up the elections office on W. Ashley Avenue for cyber sleuths working for the conspiracy-spinning attorney Sidney Powell, whose chief client was President Donald Trump.
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