Established Fact
On October 23, 2020, a poll worker at the North Fulton Government Service Center reported that one of the computers used for absentee ballot processing was remotely accessed from an unknown location, with the remote party taking control of the computer and deleting information. This incident was documented in an email chain initiated by Frances Watson, Chief Investigator of the Secretary of State’s Investigations Division. The laptop was confirmed to be connected to the internet via Wi-Fi at the time of the unauthorized access. No public criminal referral, arrest, or prosecution regarding this incident has been documented in any available record, despite its unambiguous character as a Computer Fraud and Abuse Act violation occurring during live election operations.
Citations
Frances Watson email chain (Chief Investigator, SOS Investigations Division) documenting Oct. 23, 2020 report of remote access and data deletion at North Fulton Government Service Center
Fulton County 2020 General Election Report for Georgia State Election Board, Election Oversight Group, LLC https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UzJ4qX6iBSrFMtkoRnOGIe3q8pzGjkVx/view?usp=drive_link (remote access incident as part of broader election security analysis)
Fulton County 2020 General Election Report for Georgia State Election Board, Election Oversight Group, LLC https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UzJ4qX6iBSrFMtkoRnOGIe3q8pzGjkVx/view?usp=drive_link, Section II Security Negligence (Established Fact — no criminal referral or prosecution documented).