ATLANTA — The tech company that copied election data in Coffee County was also considered for similar work in Spalding County, prompting a new investigation in Georgia, State Elections Board Chairman William Duffey said.
The company, Atlanta-based SullivanStrickler, communicated with the Spalding County elections board in August 2021 about an agreement to collect information from election management systems, Duffey said during a State Election Board meeting Wednesday.
The agreement wasn’t finalized, and unlike in Coffee County, it doesn’t appear that SullivanStrickler actually copied data in Spalding County, Duffey said. Georgia election equipment is supposed to be kept secure from potential tampering, and the GBI is already conducting a criminal investigation into computer trespassing allegations in Coffee County’s elections office.