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Coffee County Submits Another Letter with Evidence Claiming Inconsistent Results Obtained from Dominion Machines

December 15, 2020January 2, 2021 Corinne Murdock

Coffee County submitted a letter to the Georgia House Governmental Affairs Committee with evidence claiming that the Dominion Voting Systems (Dominion) machines provided inconsistent results in their county. Like the rest of Georgia and 28 other states, the county used Dominion’s Democracy Suite 5.5.

The Georgia Star News was informed that the secretary of state’s office stands by the information issued in its press release last week stating that Coffee County workers likely double-scanned batches of ballots.

Coffee County Election Board Alleges Serious Flaws with Electronic Voting Systems and Processing Procedures

December 12, 2020December 11, 2020 Corinne Murdock

Coffee County Election Board testified that there are serious flaws with the state’s electronic voting systems. In a video presented during Georgia House hearing on Thursday, Coffee County Elections Director Misty Martin walked the viewer and other officials through use of the scanning and uploading software, pointing out several key issues that she claimed allowed for voter fraud.

During the video, Martin presented examples of how the voting system could allow elections supervisors to override votes or accept double votes within the electronic adjudication process, as well as scan and electronically vote on blank ballots. Additionally, the video depicted monitors’ inability to watch the adjudication process from the accepted amount of social distancing.

Georgia’s Coffee County Refuses to Certify Electronic Recount Results, Cites Irreconcilable Anomalies with Voting Machines

December 10, 2020December 9, 2020 Corinne Murdock

Coffee County election officials refused to certify the electronic recount earlier this week, citing irreconcilable anomalies with the voting machine results in a letter to Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger.

In the letter, the Coffee County Board of Elections and Registration stated that the electronic recount was unable to repeat duplicate, credible results.

Tennessee Woman Files Suit Against Public School Mask Mandate

September 14, 2020September 13, 2020 Chris Butler

A Coffee County mother is reportedly suing the county school system over its mask mandate for students.

That woman, Heather Murchison, said the mandate prevents her son from concentrating at school, and she also said only parents can decide if their children should wear masks.

In a Facebook post last week, Murchison also said she observed a certain level of hypocrisy among the people enforcing the mandate.

Coffee County DA Won’t Prosecute People Going Against Gov. Bill Lee’s COVID-19 Executive Orders

May 2, 2020May 1, 2020 Chris Butler

Coffee County District Attorney General Craig Northcott said this week he will not prosecute anyone engaging in otherwise lawful activity just because it violates Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee’s executive orders on COVID-19.

Audit: Coffee County Conference Center Lost Nearly Half a Million Dollars

December 26, 2019December 25, 2019 Chris Butler

The Coffee County Conference Center lost nearly $340,000 in the last fiscal year, according to an audit Tennessee Comptrollers released this week.

Islamic Group Demands Coffee County District Attorney Resign

May 21, 2019May 21, 2019 Chris Butler

Coffee County District Attorney Craig Northcott, assigned the Glen Casada and Justin Jones case, has reportedly stirred up controversy of his own by criticizing the Islamic religion on Facebook. This, according to several news outlets, who also reported that the Council on American-Islamic Relations wants Northcott to resign. CAIR…