A member of the Trump legal team said she had an “independent team” participate in an hourslong forensic audit of election equipment in a small county in northern Michigan.
The audit in Antrim County relates to a marijuana proposal, not the presidential election, but Jenna Ellis, a senior legal adviser for the Trump 2020 campaign and an attorney to President Trump, told Fox Business on Monday that what investigators find could provide answers about irregularities they believe could have tilted the 2020 election in President-elect Joe Biden’s favor.
“This is really important, Charles, because we have an independent team that is there that has gotten all of this imaging, and they spent about eight hours yesterday doing that forensic audit. We anticipate having the results by tomorrow,” Ellis told host Charles Payne.
“This is incredibly important to the election integrity effort as a whole because this isn’t just the Trump campaign that’s interested in having answers to these machines,” she continued. “Were they connected to Wi-Fi? Why did these so-called glitches happen? What really is the system that is behind all of this?”
Great discussion with @cvpayne about the Trump Legal Team’s momentum moving forward this week for #ElectionIntegrity after the state hearings! Here’s what’s next!
I also appreciated his last question… don’t miss that! 😊 pic.twitter.com/7UMAeUIb1V
— Jenna Ellis (@JennaEllisEsq) December 7, 2020
Rudy Giuliani, who is leading the Trump legal fight, said last week that it was a “big win” when a judge in Michigan ordered a forensic examination of 22 Dominion voting machines. Dominion Voting Systems has been the target of claims by Trump and his allies about being involved in a massive voter fraud scheme, but the company has vociferously denied the claims, billing them as being part of a “disinformation” effort.
In the legal challenge related to the marijuana proposal brought by voter William Bailey, the judge ordered Allied Security Operations Group access to take forensic images of the election equipment. The initial order made no mention of the Trump legal team, according to WPBN, a local ABC affiliate, and it wasn’t immediately clear who comprised the “independent team” mentioned by Ellis. She told Fox News on Sunday that “our team” had been given access to the 22 machines.
