My new Daily Dot article: Coffee Cty, GA missing laptop may impact Trump, Curling cases

[Douglas Lucas]

Hello cypherpunks,

Today the Daily Dot published my new investigative article regarding a 
missing laptop, heavily used by Trump co-defendant and then-election 
supervisor Mistory Hampton, that Coffee County, Georgia is going to the 
mat not to turn over, not to even locate. The southern rural county in 
the swing state is infamous for the January 2021 elections office breach 
that Hampton is accused of facilitating. That makes the laptop a 
suspected means of alleged crime, and yet Coffee County was like "What 
laptop?" for nearly two years before admitting in court last month that 
okay, surveillance footage does show Hampton with the silver laptop.

Here's the link to my new investigation:

https://www.dailydot.com/news/missing-laptop-trump-case-georgia/

I also self-published an accompanying blog post today that includes some 
of the cut passages. The blog post also includes, for the first time, 4 
previously unreleased CCTV stills from the surveillance footage.

Here's the link to my new blog post with a lot of interesting extra 
information:

https://douglaslucas.com/blog/2023/12/19/extra-material-dailydot-investigative-article-laptop/

Georgia is, of course, a swing state.

My article includes a lot of tech details cypherpunks might find 
interesting, such as an .ost file, Microsoft Office 365 licenses, and 
the County refusing to back up official files on the elections desktop, 
as required by law, when the Georgia Bureau of Investigation came 
knocking because, they say, they feared accusations of tampering.

Check out also, referenced in various places in these two pieces, a 
Coffee local / longtime lawyer's proposal that the elections board adopt 
independent counsel -- possibly pro bono and not conflicted like the 
county lawyers -- to help them and the public with a bottom-up internal 
inquiry in the breach and its aftermath.

Thanks,

:-Douglas